Mairead Corrigan Maguire on Article 9



1976 Nobel Peace Price winner Mairead Corrigan Maguire from Northern Ireland expresses her views about Japan's Peace Constitution.

There is much more on Youtube.

Who is Mairead Corrigan Maguire?

Corrigan was born into a Roman Catholic family in Belfast, the second child of seven. She attended Catholic schools until the age of 14. Corrigan became active with the peace movement after three children of her sister, Anne Maguire, were run over and killed by a car driven by Danny Lennon, an Provisional Irish Republican Army (PIRA) man who was fatally shot by British troops while trying to make a getaway. Betty Williams, had witnessed the event, and soon after the two co-founded Women for Peace, which later became the Community for Peace People.

By the end of the month Williams and Corrigan brought 35,000 people onto the streets of Belfast petitioning for peace between the republican and loyalist factions. She believed the most effective way to end the violence was not violence but re-education.

She received the Nobel Peace Prize, along with Betty Williams, in 1977 (the prize for 1976) for their efforts.

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