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Mairead Corrigan and Betty Williams


No. of pages 106

Published: 2006

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Great for age 11-18 years

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Betty Williams and Mairead Corrigan were awarded the 1976 Nobel Peace Prize for their work to end the violence in Northern Ireland, a conflict dating back to the division of Ireland by the British in the 1920s. Williams and Corrigan joined forces in August 1976 in their West Belfast neighborhood, when a woman and three children out for a walk were hit by a runaway car. The car's driver was an Irish Republican Army gunman who had been shot by British soldiers. The children were killed, their mother critically injured. The tragedy prompted horrified Belfast women - including Williams, a housewife, and Corrigan, the children's aunt - to put a stop to the violence. The pair founded Women for Peace (later renamed Community for Peace People), and in weeks, rallied more than 30,000 people to demonstrate against violence. Though marchers were beaten and their own lives threatened, the women continued their efforts and were ultimately credited with reducing the conflict's death toll by half. ""Betty Williams and Mairead Corrigan"" presents the inspiring story of the two ""ordinary"" women who launched the Northern Ireland peace movement.

 

This book is aimed at children in secondary school.

There are 106 pages in this book. This book was published 2006 by Chelsea House Publishers .

Susan Muaddi Darraj is associate professor of English at Harford Community College in Bel Air, Maryland. She is the senior editor of The Baltimore Review and the author of The Inheritance of Exile, a collection of short stories.

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