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...sense, Anne Maguire's tragedy was not in vain. Betty Williams, who had witnessed the accident, and Anne's sister, Mairead Corrigan, began a door-to-door campaign, seeking signatures for a petition condemning the continued violence between Ulster's Roman Catholics and Protestants. The movement, known as the Peace People, won the 1976 Nobel Peace Prize for rallying public outrage against the senseless sectarian killings...
...around in her purse, and proudly produced a small box. Mystified, I held out my hand and she placed a heavy gold medal in it. Upon closer inspection I realized I was holding a Nobel Peace Prize, and the the lady I was speaking with was none other than Mairead Corrigan, one of the founders of the Peace People movement in Ireland. She laughingly told me that she had once unsuccessfully tried to get out of a parking ticket by showing it to a policeman, and then answered my embarrassingly witless, though wellintentioned, questions about Ireland...
...Mairead Corrigan just smiled patiently, and explained a story she must have told thousands of times before...
...What Mairead Corrigan was doing at that party is what the author of Mairead Corrigan, Betty Williams tried, but failed to do in his book. She was explaining the Irish peace movement, but, more importantly, she was trying to dissolve the international apathy about the "Irish question." Richard Deutsch, a Northern Ireland correspondent for Le Figaro, has lived in Belfast for the past five years, which might imply an understanding of the situation. Unfortunately, his book reads like a shallow but prolonged newspaper article; it is informative, but not particularly insightful...
...transcriptions of his interviews with the movement's three founders, Mairead Corrigan, Betty Williams and Ciaran McKeon, are the best part of the book, but even they are inadequate, merely recording what each has said to hundreds of other journalists...