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Mairid Maguire or Mairead Corrigan Maguire, former May Fair Corigan, was born on January 27, 1944) is a social activist from Northern Ireland, a 1976 Nobel Peace Prize bride along with Betty Williams, for their efforts to bring a cessation of violence during trouble.

Her life.
Magweiler was born in Belfast for a Catholic family, the second daughter of seven children. From the age of 16 she worked as short and in 1976 served as a personal secretary of a manager in the Guinness cooker. Maguire was active in the local community, established with friends the first kindergarten in their neighborhood and acted for prisoners and their families.

On August 10, 1976, at the height of the Trouble period in Northern Ireland, an armed patrol by the British army on Danny Lennon's car, an activist of the Republican Army, shot a man in Belfast. My car was hit by Lennon, the car in which Sta was driving and rose on the pavement, sentenced to death three of Meguire's nephews and mortally wounded her sister.

The incident was Ada Betty Williams, a local homewife who decided to take action. It began to corrupt residents of a petition calling on refraining from violence and calling them to protest against the situation. At the same time, Meguire turned to the television network and also came out in a call for the cessation of violence that was widely acknowledged. Williams is a company for Coragan and a journalist named Kiran Mackihan and together began organizing a series of nonviolent civil demonstrations and protests.

Mackihan composed a manifesto detailing the principles of the new movement and gave the organization his name: “The community of peace people.” The movement began to gain momentum across Northern Ireland, with many peace marches coming out of various cities and many funds were recruited for the purpose. Within only six months, the rate of violence fell by about 70%.

In December 1977, he was granted a Nobel Peace Prize.

About three and a half years after her children were killed, Magweiler's sister committed suicide. In 1981, she married Jackie McGuire, the couple had two children who joined the three children of Jackie and her sister.

After receiving the award, Magweiler continued to be public activist, she is a member of the organization that opposes abortion, who is merciful and punished by death, and acts to encourage Integrative schools between Catholics and Protestants. In 2003, a few days before the invasion of the coalition forces to Iraq was arrested from Guaider while protesting the White House in an attempt to prevent the war. In 2006, a member of the Five Nobel Prize winners for further peace: Betty Williams, Judy Williams, Shirley Abadi, and Aangry Mattie and Grivarta Manchu, to establish a “ Nobel Prize winners initiative” for a joint effort to achieve justice, peace and rights for women around the world.

Maguire was the first to offer Adolpho Peres Argentinean to win the Nobel Peace Prize, for his non-violent struggle with the country’s military junta.

from Voyager and Israel

Maguire first visited Israel in 1984 as part of a Christian group that aims to put an end to the love between Christians and Jews. In 2000, she again visited Israel, according to the invitation of Rabbis for Human Rights and the Israeli Committee on the demolition of houses. Maguire was part of Ahmad’s defense team that Amana asked the military court to cancel the demolition order to his home in Tehran. After this visit, Meguire became one of the most prominent critics of Israeli policy toward the Palestinians, security issues and nuclear issues, Israel’s policy in the territories compared to apartheid policy and claimed that Israel is carrying ethnic cleansing from its establishment. She signed a petition calling on the European Parliament to erase the Hamas movement and the rest of the “Palestinian Liberation Organizations” from the list of European terrorist organizations, and a petition calling for the release of Tal Tetima. Maguire took part in the international journey to the Mutter