Seán MacBride's Birth Card: The Ace of Diamonds

In the record

Seán MacBride (26 January 1904 – 15 January 1988) was an Irish republican activist, politician, and diplomat who served as Minister for External Affairs from 1948 to 1951, Leader of Clann na Poblachta from 1946 to 1965 and Chief of Staff of the IRA from 1936 to 1937. The birth-card coordinate for January 26 is the Ace of Diamonds — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 1974 Peace prize.

Nobel Prize record

• 1974 The Nobel Peace Prize — for his efforts to secure and develop human rights throughout the world

The Ace of Diamonds coordinate

Seán MacBride's birthday maps to the Ace of Diamonds (The Wealth Pioneer). 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 Seán MacBride. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You start a resource in motion because you trust you can make and keep value.

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Seán MacBride in the public record

He served as a Teachta Dála (TD) from 1947 to 1957. Rising from a domestic Irish political career, he founded or participated in multiple international organisations of the 20th century, including the United Nations, the Council of Europe and Amnesty International. He received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1974, the Lenin Peace Prize for 1975–1976 and the UNESCO Silver Medal for Service in 1980. MacBride was born in Paris in 1904, the son of Maud Gonne and Major John MacBride. As a founding member of Inghinidhe na hÉireann and Cumann na mBan, his mother was to become a prominent figure in Irish nationalist and republican circles. Later, in the 1930s, she became a devotee of the social credit ideas of Major C.H. Douglas and was "noisily anti-Semitic". His father had led the Irish Transvaal Brigade against the British in the Second Boer War.

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

Where the record meets the Ace of Diamonds

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Natural resource building and accumulation

Rising from a domestic Irish political career, he founded or participated in multiple international organisations of the 20th century, including the United Nations, the Council of Europe and Amnesty International.

Paired on value and commerce — the domain ♦ governs in this system. Markers in the record: founded.

Also on the record

1. Within a year of MacBride's birth, he returned to Dublin where, following his participation in the Easter Rising, John MacBride was court-martialed by the British and executed in May 1916.
2. MacBride's first language was French, and he retained, or, as some would claim, affected, a French accent in the English language for the rest of his life.
3. MacBride first studied at the Jesuit Lycée Saint-Louis-de-Gonzague, and remained in Paris until his father's execution in 1916, when he was sent to school at Mount St Benedict's, Gorey, County Wexford in Ireland, and briefly at the Downside School.
4. MacBride first became involved in politics during the 1918 Irish general election in which he was active for Sinn Féin.

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• Bertrand Russell — 1950 Literature
• Brian P. Schmidt — 2011 Physics
• Burton Richter — 1976 Physics
• César Milstein — 1984 Physiology or Medicine
• David J. Wineland — 2012 Physics
• Ei-ichi Negishi — 2010 Chemistry
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• 18 more laureates share this card.

FAQ

What is Seán MacBride's birth card?

The Ace of Diamonds. January 26 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 Seán MacBride's dates come from?

Birth date 1904-01-26 is the Nobel Prize API v2.1 day-precision date, verified against Wikidata P569 (CC0, day precision, Gregorian preferred). The two sources match. Year-only Nobel dates and Nobel↔Wikidata conflicts are dropped, not guessed. Page hooks and evidence come from the Wikipedia REST summary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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