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

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

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RARE "Nobel Peace Prize" Mairead Maguire Signed 4X7 Embossed Envelope LE #36/500:
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Up for sale a RARE "Nobel Peace Prize" Mairead Maguire Signed 4X7 Embossed Envelope Limited Edition #36/500 Dated 1976.

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. In June 2010,

Maguire went on board the MV Rachel Corrie as part of a flotilla that

unsuccessfully attempted to breach the blockade. Maguire was born into a Roman

Catholic community in Belfast, Northern Ireland,

the second of eight children – five sisters and two brothers. Her parents were

Andrew and Margaret Corrigan. She 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. After working for a time as a babysitter at a

Catholic community centre, she was able to save enough money to enrol in a year

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. She volunteered

regularly with the Legion of Mary, spending

her evenings and weekends working with children and visiting inmates at Long Kesh prison. When she was 21 she began working as a

secretary for the Guinness brewery, where she remained

employed until December 1976. Maguire told The Progressive in

2013 that her early Catholic heroes included Dorothy Day and the Berrigan brothers. Maguire became

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,

a Provisional Irish

Republican Army (PIRA) fugitive who had been fatally shot

by British troops while

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. On 10

August, Lennon and accomplice John Chillingworth were transporting an Armalite rifle through Andersonstown, 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 Finaghy Road North, 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

day. Betty Williams, a resident of Andersonstown who happened to be

driving by, witnessed the tragedy and accused the IRA of firing at the British

patrol and provoking the incident.In the days that followed she began gathering

signatures for a peace petition from Protestants and Catholics and was able to

assemble some 200 women to march for peace in Belfast. The march passed near

the home of Mairead Maguire (then Mairead Corrigan) who joined it. She and

Williams thus became "the joint leaders of a virtually spontaneous mass