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Máiread Corrigan-Maguire, a Nobel Peace Prize laureate and co-founder of Peace People, will be delivering her only public talk in Hawai‘i a speech entitled “Charter for a Non-violent World” at:
Mystical Rose Oratory, Chaminade University of Honolulu
on November 3, 2007 at 3:00pm
Corrigan-Maguire is in Honolulu as a guest speaker at the First Global Nonkilling Leadership Forum sponsored by the Center for Global Nonviolence and Spark Matsunaga Institute for Peace and Mu Ryang Sa Buddhist Temple. The Chaminade talk is cosponsored by Chaminade University, the Yoshiaki Fujitani Interfaith Program and the Biographical Research Center of Hawai‘i.
Corrigan-Maguire became active in the peace movement after the tragic death of
two nephews and a niece – John, Andrew and Joanne. The children were killed on
August 10 1976 when a car driven by Irish Republican Army member Danny Lennon
ploughed into them after he was shot trying to evade British troops. Anne Maguire, thechildren’s mother and Corrigan-Maguire’s sister, took her own life a few years later. At
the end of August, Corrigan-Maguire, along with another woman, Betty Williams,
organized a rally in the streets of Belfast petitioning for a stop to the violence between the
republican and loyalist factions. Over 35,000 people came out in support. Corrigan-Maguire and Williams, along with Ciaran McKeown, an Irish journalist, thus took the
first steps in founding a movement known as the “Peace People,” playing an important
role in moving Northern Island in the direction of peace. Corrigan-Maguire and Williams
both received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1977.
In 1990, Corrigan-Maguire received the Pacem in Terris (Peace on Earth) award, named after an encyclical by Pope John XXIII. Earlier this year, Corrigan-Maguire was hit by a rubber bullet while participating in a protest against the construction of the West Bank barrier outside the Palestinian village of Bil’in.
Corrigan-Maguire’s Chaminade talk is free and light refreshments will be served afterwards.
