The Nobel Peace Prize 1977
Awarded on: 1977-10-10
"for the courageous efforts in founding a movement to put an end to the violent conflict in Northern Ireland"
Mairead Corrigan
Born: 1944-01-27 in Belfast, Northern Ireland
Gender: female
Field: Northern Irish peace activist (born 1944)
Biography
Mairead Maguire, also known as Mairead Corrigan Maguire and formerly as Mairéad Corrigan, is a peace activist from Northern Ireland. She co-founded, with Betty Williams and Ciaran McKeown, the Women for Peace, which later became the Community for Peace People, an organization dedicated to encouraging a peaceful resolution of the Troubles in Northern Ireland. Maguire and Williams were awarded the 1976 Nobel Peace Prize.