Mairead Corrigan's Birth Card: The King of Clubs

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Mairead Maguire (born 27 January 1944), also known as Mairead Corrigan Maguire and formerly as Mairéad Corrigan, is a peace activist from Northern Ireland. The birth-card coordinate for January 27 is the King of Clubs — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 1976 Peace prize.

Nobel Prize record

• 1976 The Nobel Peace Prize — for the courageous efforts in founding a movement to put an end to the violent conflict in Northern Ireland

The King of Clubs coordinate

Mairead Corrigan's birthday maps to the King of Clubs (The Master Leader). Card Blueprints treats that as a 365-day coordinate: solar value = 55 − (2 × month + day), and the year is unused. It is not a prediction about a Nobel Prize and not a verdict on Mairead Corrigan. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You make the intellectual call in the open and you can revise it.

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Mairead Corrigan in the public record

She co-founded, with Betty Williams and Ciaran McKeown, the Women for Peace, which later became the Community for Peace People, an organization dedicated to encouraging a peaceful resolution of the Troubles in Northern Ireland. Maguire and Williams were awarded the 1976 Nobel Peace Prize. Maguire was born into a Roman Catholic community in Belfast, Northern Ireland, the second of eight children – five sisters and two brothers. Her parents were Andrew and Margaret Corrigan. She attended St. Vincent's Primary School, a private Catholic school, until the age of 14, at which time her family could no longer pay for her schooling. After working for a time as a babysitter at a Catholic community centre, she was able to save enough money to enroll in a year of business classes at Miss Gordon's Commercial College, which led her at the age of 16 to a job as an accounting clerk with a local factory. She volunteered regularly with the Legion of Mary, spending her evenings and weekends working with children and visiting inmates at Long Kesh prison.

Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Mairead Maguire (CC BY-SA 4.0). No biographical facts were written for this page beyond that article.

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She co-founded, with Betty Williams and Ciaran McKeown, the Women for Peace, which later became the Community for Peace People, an organization dedicated to encouraging a peaceful resolution of the Troubles in Northern Ireland.

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Also on the record

1. When she was 21 she began working as a secretary for the Guinness brewery, where she remained employed until December 1976.
2. Maguire told The Progressive in 2013 that her early Catholic heroes included Dorothy Day and the Berrigan brothers.
3. Maguire became active with the Northern Ireland peace movement after three children of her sister, Anne Maguire, were run over and killed by a car driven by Danny Lennon, a Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) member who had been fatally shot by soldiers of the King's Own Royal Border Regiment (KORBR) while trying to escape the troops.
4. Lennon had been released from prison in April 1976 after serving three years for suspected involvement in the IRA.

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• Carl Cori — 1947 Physiology or Medicine
• Cecil Powell — 1950 Physics
• Daniel Bovet — 1957 Physiology or Medicine
• Emil Fischer — 1902 Chemistry
• Eric Kandel — 2000 Physiology or Medicine
• François Jacob — 1965 Physiology or Medicine
• Frederick Sanger — 1958 Chemistry; 1980 Chemistry
• 28 more laureates share this card.

FAQ

What is Mairead Corrigan's birth card?

The King of Clubs. January 27 maps to that card through the public Card Blueprints formula. The year of birth is not used.

Does a birth card predict a Nobel Prize?

No. These pages are coordinates, not fortune-telling. A birth card names a calendar day in a 52-card year. It does not forecast prizes, character, or fate.

Where do Mairead Corrigan's dates come from?

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