Mairead Corrigan

The Nobel Peace Prize 1976
Co-Nobelist: Betty Williams

Role: Founder of the Northern Ireland Peace Movement (later renamed Community of Peace People)
Betty Williams and Mairead Corrigan received their Nobel Prize one year later, in 1977.

Nobel Prize Cash & Philanthropy

Mairead Corrigan, not wanting to continue to receive a salary from the organization she founded with Ciaran McKeown and Betty Williams, the Northern Ireland Peace Movement (later renamed Community of Peace People), kept the Noble Prize money for herself.
Co Nobelist Betty Williams did the same.