Word: corrigans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...announced last year that it would give no award for 1976, Norwegians were prepared. An alliance of newspapers and civic groups had already begun a campaign for a "People's Peace Prize," which eventually collected $324,000 in donations. The sum was awarded to Betty Williams and Mairead Corrigan, the Roman Catholic "peace women" of Belfast (TIME, Dec. 13) who had stirred the world with their pleas for an end to sectarian bloodshed in Northern Ireland...
...Nobel Committee had not overlooked the women; their campaign had not begun until August 1976, six months after the deadline for nominations. Last week the committee acknowledged that popular opinion had settled on the right candidates. Corrigan, 33, and Williams, 34, were named winners of last year's Peace Prize. Simultaneously, the 1977 award was given to Amnesty International, the London-based human rights organization dedicated to freeing political prisoners and ending the use of torture around the world. The cash that goes with each prize...
While AI has grown steadily in members and reputation, Ulster's Community of Peace People, as the movement is now called, has lost rather than gained visibility in the past year. It no longer mounts massive demonstrations on Ulster streets, and Corrigan and Williams rarely take their courageous, much-publicized peace strolls through the city's tense confrontation zones. Some early supporters have defected after disputes with Ciaran Mc-Keown, an ex-journalist who has become the chief ideologue of the movement. Mc-Keown has switched the emphasis from protest marches toward projects of "community democracy" that...
Williams and Corrigan believe the peace movement is going in the right direction. "When the movement started, it was only emotion," Corrigan said last week. "Now it is hard work." Among projects that the Nobel money will help fund are neighborhood cooperatives, efforts to find housing and employment to dissuade people from resorting to terrorism, and other social programs'. Williams and Corrigan also cite a statistic that argues for their success: since their crusade was launched 14 months ago, violence in Northern Ireland has been cut by half...
...event, Elizabeth used her visit to note a different sort of anniversary. A year ago last week, Catholics Betty Williams and Mairead Corrigan founded the so-called Peace People's Movement, which has attracted mass support from both Catholics and Protestants. The Queen pointedly invited the two women to a reception aboard the Britannia. Other royal events: a slow cruise on the floodlit yacht up the coast, which was crowded with onlookers, and an investiture ceremony at Hillsborough Castle at which she bestowed honors on 18 of her subjects...