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Mairead Corrigan

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The Resume

    (January 27, 1944- )
    Born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
    Cofounded the Community of Peace Peoples to promote peace in Northern Ireland
    Won the Nobel Peace Prize with Betty Williams (1976)

Why she might be annoying:

    She and Williams had a public falling out over the division of the Nobel Prize award money.
    Ten years later, the two refused to speak to each other during the filming of a documentary about the movement they founded.
    She married her late sister's husband.
    She was part of a flotilla of pro-Palestinian activists that tried to break Israel's blockade of the Gaza Strip (2010).

Why she might not be annoying:

    She became a peace activist after three of her sister's children were run over and killed by a car driven by an IRA fugitive who had been fatally shot by British soldiers while trying to make a getaway.
    She and Williams organized a protest march of 10,000 women and children that was disrupted by members of the IRA who accused them of being 'dupes of the British.'
    The next week, they led another march, this time 35,000 strong.
    She and Williams reconciled as members of the Nobel Women's Initiative (2006).
    She was struck by a rubber bullet while protesting the construction of a barrier in the West Bank (2007).

Credit: C. Fishel


Featured in the following Annoying Collections:

Year In Review:

    In 2023, Out of 3 Votes: 66.67% Annoying
    In 2022, Out of 3 Votes: 33.33% Annoying
    In 2021, Out of 5 Votes: 80.0% Annoying
    In 2020, Out of 7 Votes: 71.43% Annoying
    In 2019, Out of 5 Votes: 60.0% Annoying
    In 2018, Out of 14 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2017, Out of 27 Votes: 77.78% Annoying
    In 2016, Out of 3 Votes: 100% Annoying
    In 2015, Out of 2 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2014, Out of 11 Votes: 72.73% Annoying
    In 2013, Out of 46 Votes: 67.39% Annoying
    In 2012, Out of 28 Votes: 67.86% Annoying
    In 2011, Out of 18 Votes: 66.67% Annoying
    In 2010, Out of 89 Votes: 67.42% Annoying
    In 2009, Out of 66 Votes: 39.39% Annoying
    In 2008, Out of 18 Votes: 61.11% Annoying