Portrait of Mairead Corrigan Maguire during an interview at the Nobel Museum in Stockholm, 13 September 2013. Copyright © Nobel Media AB 2013
Photo: Niklas Elmehed

A letter from Betty Williams and Mairead Corrigan to the Norwegian Nobel Committee after the news that they had been awarded the 1976 Nobel Peace Prize.

Credit: The Norwegian Nobel Institute.

Mairead Corrigan Maguire autographs a chair at Bistro Nobel at the Nobel Museum in Stockholm, 13 September 2013. Copyright © Nobel Media AB 2013
Photo: Niklas Elmehed

Mairead Corrigan attending the Nobel Centennial 2001, a conference titled ”The Conflicts of the 20th Century and the Solutions for the 21st Century” in Oslo, Norway, December 2001.

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Portrait of Mairead Corrigan, December 2001.

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Nobel Peace Prize laureates at the Nobel Centennial 2001, a conference titled ”The Conflicts of the 20th Century and the Solutions for the 21st Century”. From left: Oscar Arias Sánchez, Norman Borlaug, Joseph Rotblat, Rigoberta Menchu, Adolfo Pérez Esquivel, (photographer Micheline Pelletier), John Hume and Mairead Corrigan.

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At the Nobel Peace Prize award ceremony on 10 December 2001 where Kofi Annan and the United Nations were awarded the 2001 peace prize, many previous laureates were present. From left: Joseph Rotblat, Jody Williams, José Ramos-Horta, Adolfo Pérez Esquivel, Lech Wałęsa, Desmond Tutu, John Hume, David Trimble, Elie Wiesel, Norman Borlaug, Rigoberta Menchu Tum and Mairead Corrigan. The remaining are representatives for peace prize awarded organisations.

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Mairead Corrigan Maguire, 1976 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, during her visit with Professor Muhammad Yunus and Grameen Bank, 23 November 1998.

© Grameen Bank, 1998. Photo: Nurjahan Chaklader