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James Martin Pacelli McGuinness (Irish: Séamus Máirtín Pacelli Mag Aonghusa; [1] 23 May 1950 – 21 March 2017) was an Irish republican politician and statesman for Sinn Féin and a leader within the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) during The Troubles.
Martin McGuinness, politician who—as a member of Sinn Fein, the political wing of the Irish Republican Party—played an influential role in negotiating the Good Friday Agreement of 1998 and later served as deputy first minister of Northern Ireland (2007–17).
Mar 21, 2017 · Martin McGuinness was the IRA leader who became a peace negotiator - a committed Irish republican who ended up shaking hands with the Queen.
Mar 21, 2017 · McGuinness spoke for the overwhelming majority of nationalists by making clear that the police were now a service for all the people of Northern Ireland. Dissident attacks on the police were thus...
Jan 20, 2017 · Martin McGuinness, IRA commander turned Northern Ireland deputy first minister, switched from Armalite to an armistice.
Mar 21, 2017 · DUBLIN (AP) — Martin McGuinness took up arms to fight British soldiers in the streets but ended up shaking hands with Queen Elizabeth II. A militant who long sought to unify Ireland through violence, he became a peacemaking politician who earned the respect, and even the friendship, of his former enemies.
Mar 21, 2017 · Martin McGuinness, a former Irish Republican Army commander and Sinn Fein political leader who helped negotiate peace in Northern Ireland after decades of sectarian violence, and became a...
Mar 21, 2017 · DUBLIN — Martin McGuinness, the former Irish Republican Army commander and deputy first minister in Northern Ireland who was a key figure throughout five decades of conflict and...
Jan 19, 2017 · BELFAST — Martin McGuinness, a man who took the IRA into war and Sinn Féin into government, has died at the age of 66. McGuinness, who had been receiving treatment for amyloidosis, a rare and serious disease caused by the accumulation of proteins in tissues and organs, stood aside in January, on the 10th anniversary of going into ...
Mar 21, 2017 · The unusual arc of Martin McGuinness's public life culminated in his 2012 meeting with Queen Elizabeth II; both of them called it an important moment for peace.
