MAIREAD CORRIGAN MAGUIRE Mairead Corrigan Maguire was not actively involved with the Northern Ireland peace movement until she came face-to-face with violence in 1976. On August 10th, Danny Lennon and John Chillingworth of the Provisional Irish Republican...
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MAIREAD CORRIGAN MAGUIRE Mairead Corrigan Maguire was not actively involved with the Northern Ireland peace movement until she came face-to-face with violence in 1976. On August 10th, Danny Lennon and John Chillingworth of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA), were driving through Belfast, with a rifle in their car. The IRA wanted to form a united Ireland through physical force that would be outside of United Kingdom control. British troops, claiming that the rifle had been pointed at them, opened fire on the car, instantly killing Lennon and seriously wounding Chillingworth. The car veered onto the sidewalk, striking Mairead’s sister Anne and three of her children. While Anne survived, all three children died. Another peace activist, Betty Williams, also Mairead Corrigan Maguire ©Architects of Peace Foundation witnessed the crash and assembled 200 women to march for an end to the violence. When the marchers passed Maguire’s home she quickly joined in. Shortly after the march, C
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