RARE Nobel Peace Prize Mairead Maguire Signed 4X7 Embossed Envelope LE #36/500

  

RARE "Nobel Peace Prize" Mairead Maguire Signed 4X7 Embossed Envelope Limited Edition #36/500 Dated 1976. The Women for Peace, which later became. An organization dedicated to encouraging a peaceful resolution of.

Maguire and Williams were awarded the. Recent years, she has criticised the.

In particular to the naval blockade. Maguire went on board the.

As part of a flotilla that. Unsuccessfully attempted to breach the blockade. Maguire was born into a Roman. The second of eight children - five sisters and two brothers. Vincent's 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.

Of business classes at Miss Gordon's Commercial College, which led her at the. Age of 16 to a job as an accounting clerk with a local factory. Her evenings and weekends working with children and visiting inmates at. When she was 21 she began working as a. 2013 that her early Catholic heroes included.

Active with the Northern Ireland peace movement after three children of her. Sister, Anne Maguire, were run over and killed by a car driven by Danny Lennon. (PIRA) fugitive who had been fatally shot. Trying to make a getaway. Danny Lennon had been released from prison in April.

1976 after serving three years for suspected involvement in the PIRA. August, Lennon and accomplice John Chillingworth were transporting an. Belfast, when British troops, claiming to have. Seen a rifle pointed at them, opened fire on the vehicle, instantly killing. Lennon and critically wounding Chillingworth.

The car Lennon drove went out of. Control and mounted a pavement on. Colliding with Anne Maguire and three of.

Her children who were out shopping. Joanne (8) and Andrew (6 weeks) died at the. Scene; John Maguire (2) succumbed to his injuries at a hospital the following. Betty Williams, a resident of Andersonstown who happened to be.

Driving by, witnessed the tragedy and accused the IRA of firing at the British. Signatures for a peace petition from Protestants and Catholics and was able to.

Assemble some 200 women to march for peace in Belfast. The home of Mairead Maguire (then Mairead Corrigan) who joined it. Williams thus became the joint leaders of a virtually spontaneous mass. The next march, to the burial sites of the three. Maguire children, brought 10,000 Protestant and Catholic women together.

Marchers, including Maguire and Williams, were physically attacked by PIRA. By the end of the month Maguire and Williams had brought 35,000 people. Onto the streets of Belfast petitioning for peace between the. "Women for Peace, " the movement changed its name to the. Gender-neutral "Community of Peace People, " or simply Peace.

In contrast with the prevailing climate at the. Time, Maguire was convinced that the most effective way to end the violence was.

Not through violence but through re-education. Biweekly paper, Peace by Peace, and provided for families of prisoners a bus. Service to and from Belfast's jails.

In 1977, she and Betty Williams received. The 1976 Nobel Peace Prize for their efforts. Aged 32 at the time, she was the. Youngest Nobel Peace Prize laureate until. Was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in.