Mairead Maguire
Mairead Maguire , also known as Mairead Corrigan Maguire and formerly as Mairad Corrigan, is a peace activist from Northern Ireland. She cofounded, with Betty Williams and Ciaran McKeown, the Women for Peace, which later became the Community for Peace People, an organisation dedicated to encouraging a peaceful resolution of the Troubles in Northern Ireland. Maguire and Williams were awarded the 1976 Nobel Peace Prize. Maguire has also won several other awards.
Maguire was born into a Roman Catholic community in Belfast, Northern Ireland, the second of eight children five sisters and two brothers. Her parents were Andrew and Margaret Corrigan. She attended St. Vincents Primary School, a private Catholic school, until the age of 14, at which time her family could no longer pay for her schooling. After working for a time as a babysitter at a Catholic community center, she was able to save enough money to enroll in a year of business classes at Miss Gordons Commercial College, which led her at the age ofto a job as an accounting clerk with a local factory. She volunteered regularly with the Legion of Mary, spending her evenings and weekends working with children and visiting inmates at Long Kesh prison. When she wasshe began working as a secretary for the Guinness brewery, where she remained employed until December 1976.
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