Mairead Maguire

Mairead Maguire

Mairead Maguire (born 27 January 1944), also known as Mairead Corrigan Maguire and formerly as Mairéad Corrigan, is a peace activist from Northern Ireland. She 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. Maguire and Williams were awarded the 1976 Nobel Peace Prize.In recent years, she has criticised the Israeli government's policy towards Gaza, in particular to the naval blockade. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Mairead Maguire has received more than 210,870 page views. Her biography is available in 66 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 59 in 2019). Mairead Maguire is the 147th most popular social activist (down from 132nd in 2019), the 1,006th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 909th in 2019) and the 10th most popular British Social Activist.