Mairead Maguire was born on 27 January 1944, and known as Mairead Corrigan Maguire and formerly as Mairead Corrigan, is a peace activist from Northern Ireland.
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24 Facts About Mairead Corrigan
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Mairead Corrigan 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.
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Mairead Corrigan attended St 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.
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Mairead Corrigan volunteered regularly with the Legion of Mary, spending her evenings and weekends working with children and visiting inmates at Long Kesh prison.
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Mairead Corrigan is a member of the anti-abortion group Consistent Life Ethic, which is against abortion, capital punishment and euthanasia.
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Mairead Corrigan was a first signatory on a 2008 petition calling on Turkey to end its torture of Kurdish leader Abdullah Ocalan.
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Mairead Corrigan works with various interchurch and interfaith organizations and is a councilor with the International Peace Council.
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Mairead Corrigan is a Patron of the Methodist Theological College, and of the Northern Ireland Council for Integrated Education.
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Mairead Corrigan Maguire is an outspoken critic of US and British policy in the Middle East, particularly in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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Mairead Corrigan has been personally critical of US President Barack Obama's leadership.
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Mairead Corrigan came then as part of an interfaith initiative seeking forgiveness from Jews for years of persecution by Christians in Jesus' name.
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Mairead Corrigan's second visit was in June 2000, this time in response to invitations from Rabbis for Human Rights and the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions.
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Mairead Corrigan Maguire has been a vocal supporter of Mordechai Vanunu, a former Israeli nuclear technician who revealed details of Israel's nuclear defence program to the British press in 1986 and subsequently served 18 years in prison for treason.
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Mairead Corrigan was reported to have inhaled large quantities of tear gas.
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In March 2009 Mairead Corrigan Maguire joined a campaign for the immediate and unconditional removal of Hamas from the European Union list of proscribed terrorist organisations.
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Mairead Corrigan was on board a small ferry, the MV Spirit of Humanity, said to be carrying humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip, when Israel intercepted the vessel off the coast of Gaza.
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Mairead Corrigan further said that "the tragedy is that the American government, the UN and Europe, they remain silent in the face of the abuse of Palestinian human rights, like freedom, and it's really tragic".
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Mairead Corrigan was refused an entry visa by Israeli authorities on the grounds that she had twice in the past tried to run Israel's naval embargo of the Gaza Strip and that a 10-year exclusion order was in effect against her.
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Mairead Corrigan fought her deportation with the help of Adalah an NGHO devoted to the rights of Palestinians in Israel.
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Mairead Corrigan-Maguire was deported on a flight to the UK the following morning, 5 October 2010.
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Mairead Corrigan pointed out that on her 2008 Gaza trip she had been invited to speak "to the Hamas parliament".
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Mairead Corrigan Maguire is a proponent of the belief that violence is a disease that humans develop but are not born with.
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Mairead Corrigan believes humankind is moving away from a mindset of violence and war and evolving to a higher consciousness of nonviolence and love.
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Mairead Corrigan was presented with the Science and Peace Gold Medal by the Albert Schweitzer International University in 2006, for meaningfully contributing to the spread of culture and the defence of world peace.
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