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Mairead Maguire

Mairead Maguire

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Sep 28, 2026

Andy WhiteHOST
6:10
I just thought the middle of the road was actually a very strong place to be.
Andy WhiteHOST
6:14
I'd seen the peace marches in the centre of town led by Betty Williams and Mairead Corrigan, two wonderful women who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1976.
Andy WhiteHOST
6:25
And yeah, give peace a chance.
Andy WhiteHOST
6:28
Come on.
Cormac MooreHOST
38:25
And then she started going around to houses and she got, I think she got a petition of, for Convor Peace, 6,000 signatures in like two days.
Cormac MooreHOST
38:34
And then Mairead Corrigan, she was sister of Anne and obviously aunt of the three children who died she she thanked Betty Williams and then from that you know the two of them decided to set up a peace people movement and they've got a journalist Ciarán McKeown who's based I think he's from the north but he was based in the Irish press based in Dublin and I think he probably added a bit of structure a bit of a template to how the organisation should be run and then it just grew from
Tim McGarryHOST
39:03
there loads of rallies you know and they were massive tens of thousands of people
Cormac MooreHOST
39:08
I think 25,000 Shankill 25,000 this very one that we're talking about here I think that could have been 25,000 as well and their emotional moments

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