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John Hume KCSG (18 January 1937 – 3 August 2020) was an Irish nationalist politician in Northern Ireland and a Nobel Peace Prize laureate. A founder and leader of the Social Democratic and Labour Party , Hume served in the Northern Ireland Parliament ; the Northern Ireland Assembly including, in 1974, its first power-sharing ...
John Hume, leader of the Social Democratic and Labour Party in Northern Ireland from 1979 to 2001. He also was a member of the Northern Ireland Assembly from 1998 to 2000. In 1998 he and David Trimble were awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace. Learn more about Hume’s life and career.
Aug 3, 2020 · John Hume, who has died at the age of 83, made a singular contribution to securing peace in Northern Ireland after decades of political violence that claimed more than 3,000 lives in one of...
Aug 3, 2020 · The Nobel Peace Prize winner and prominent Northern Ireland politician John Hume has died aged 83. He died in a Londonderry nursing home following a long period of illness.
Former presidents to current prime ministers were among those to pay tribute to Mr Hume's illustrious career; Young people explain what John Hume meant to them
Aug 3, 2020 · One of the two was the Catholic leader of the moderate Social Democratic and Labour Party, John Hume, regarded by many as the principal architect behind the peace agreement. After having joined the Northern Irish civil rights movement in the late 1960s, he became convinced that nationalism was a declining force in the new Europe.
Aug 3, 2020 · John Hume, a moderate Roman Catholic politician who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his dogged and ultimately successful campaign to end decades of bloodshed in his native Northern Ireland...
