With this broad-based non-sectarian character similar rallies continued elsewhere in Northern Ireland for the remainder of the year as well as supporting rallies in Dublin and London. Sinn Fein, the political wing of the IRA, condemned the movement as "one-sided and deceptive" and for duping thousands of well-meaning people. There were physical attacks on the marchers for "selling-out" and Corrigan and Williams were suspected by both sides of "collaborating with the enemy.
However, they persisted spreading their word of peace throughout the world. It worked. International sympathy evoked hundreds of thousands of dollars in contributions to the peace movement. Corrigan was convinced that only reeducating the entire populace would stop the killing.
If we stop to evaluate a lot of our old ideas and concepts, we find that they're myths, that they're false; and that bigotry has created the fear and hatred that divides our peoples. Was that justice? By early the popular enthusiasm for the movement had waned. In addition, there appeared personal criticisms of the founders, who had been accepting an honorarium for their activities in view of their having given up their regular employment to devote full-time attention to the cause.
The travels and renown of both ladies naturally invited jealousy and accusations of personal ambition. Accordingly, Corrigan and Williams resigned the leadership of the Peace People that year to give others a turn at directing the movement, although they remained active members.
Even before this the movement, which from the beginning had the journalistic and organizational advice of Ciaran McKeown, a Belfast correspondent for the Irish Press, had changed its tactics from mass rallies to lower level small group meetings, especially in troubled neighborhoods. It also sought to stimulate local community efforts for better youth recreational facilities and even to the encouragement of local industry. The group's criticism of established politicians was met by the politicians' disregard of a movement which was inherently outside of politics and regular political institutions.
Furthermore, the Peace People had directed criticism at the authorities and the security forces as well as at the terrorists. The tragedy that had inspired the formation of the peace group, the deaths of the Maguire children, was compounded on January 21, , when their distraught mother Anne took her own life. The following year Mairead Corrigan married her widowed brother-in-law Jack Maguire, who had two surviving children, and they had a son. Corrigan-Maguire returned to the Community of Peace People a.
Peace People Organization traveling throughout the world with her message of non-violent solutions to the world's great problems. In Betty Williams married an educator, James T. Perkins with whom she has a daughter. She and Williams co-founded the Women for Peace and organized a peace march to the graves of the children that was attended by 10, Protestant and Catholic women, and were attacked by members of the IRA.
The following week, they led another peace march with 35, participants, with no incidents. For the next six months, they organized weekly peace rallies throughout Ireland and the United Kingdom that were attended by thousands of people, mostly women. In recognition of their efforts, Williams and Maguire became joint recipients of the Nobel Peace Prize. After winning the Nobel Prize, Maguire continued her involvement with the Community for Peace People, which now addresses social and political issues around the world.
In , she co-founded the Committee on the Administration of Justice, a human rights organization. A graduate of the Irish School of Ecumenics, she works with inter-church and interfaith organizations in Northern Ireland and around the world. All Speakers Speeches Political ads. Attorney General U. Cabinet Member U. First Lady U. Nobel Prizes Thirteen laureates were awarded a Nobel Prize in , for achievements that have conferred the greatest benefit to humankind.
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