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John Hume
John Hume 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 Parliament of Northern Ireland; the Northern Ireland Assembly including, in 1974, its first power-sharing executive; the European Parliament and the United Kingdom Parliament. Seeking an accommodation between Irish na…
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politics · Irish nationalist politician (1937–2020) · politician · also John Hume, Hume
Born 18 January 1937 · Died 3 August 2020 · Q193630
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2026· 11 entries
Sunderland AFC: Hume and Sadiki suspended for Port Vale clash
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Northern | Star Weekly: Hume marks 25 years of social justice
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The Scarborough News: This month's column from Alison Hume, MP for Scarborough and Whitby, talks about decision to ban sale of disposable barbecues
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Roker Report: 2 Up, 2 Down: Sunderland Ease Past Rennes Thanks To Brobbey And Hume
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Roker Report: Andy’s Player Ratings: Sunderland 2-1 Stade Rennais - Brobbey and Hume wrap up preseason test
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Sofascore: Marcador en directo, H2H y alineaciones del Heidelberg United FC – Hume City FC
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Sunderland AFC: Gallery: Hume and Rigg join in U7s training
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The Scarborough News: Scarborough and Whitby MP Alison Hume welcomes temporary ban on disposable BBQs
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The Southern Wire: Operation Fume: $1.46m illegal smokes and vapes busted on Hume
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The Irish government established an annual John Hume Peace Prize award to be given to a "European who has contributed to the values which John advocated for and to the further development of our union"
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2023· 1 entry
The Guardian: Beyond Belief: The Life and Mission of John Hume review – profoundly affecting
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2022· 1 entry
The Guardian: Derry to mark 25 years of Good Friday agreement with John Hume musical
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2020· 8 entries
The Guardian: John Hume believed in the EU and building bridges | Letters
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The Guardian: John Hume’s politics went far beyond Northern Ireland – his vision is as urgent as ever | Martin Kettle
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The Guardian: John Hume's funeral in Derry unites mourners in sombre farewell
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The Guardian: I held John Hume in awe. His political bravery gave my generation peace | Séamas O’Reilly
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The Guardian: Tributes paid to John Hume, former SDLP leader and Nobel peace prize winner
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The Guardian: John Hume obituary
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The Guardian: 'Hero and peacemaker': Northern Ireland's John Hume remembered
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Died 2020-08-03.
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2017· 1 entry
The Guardian: It was John Hume, not Sinn Féin, who steered Northern Ireland to peace | Seamus Mallon
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2015· 1 entry
Hume was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease, of which he had first displayed symptoms in the late 1990s
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2012· 3 entries
The Guardian: John Hume knighted by pope
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Awarded Knight Commander of the Order of St. Gregory the Great (2012).
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Pope Benedict XVI made Hume a Knight Commander of the Papal Order of St
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2010· 1 entry
Hume topped a viewer poll by the Irish national broadcaster RTÉ as "Ireland's Greatest" ahead of Michael Collins, Mary Robinson, James Connolly, and Bono
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2008· 1 entry
Awarded honorary doctorate of Trinity College, Dublin (2008).
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2007· 2 entries
Awarded honorary doctor of the University of Rennes 2 (2007).
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Supplant the party as the principal representative of nationalism
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2005· 1 entry
The first Summer University of Democracy of the Council of Europe (Strasbourg, 10–14 July 2006), and at St Thomas University, Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada, on 18 July 2007
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2003· 1 entry
Awarded honorary citizen of Palermo (2003).
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2002· 1 entry
Awarded Commander of the Order of Saint-Charles (2002).
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2001· 4 entries
Awarded Gandhi Peace Prize (2001).
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Awarded Officer of the Order of Saint-Charles (2001).
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Career landmark: member of the 53rd Parliament of the United Kingdom (2001–2005).
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Bringing down the first, UUP-SDLP-led, post-Agreement executive, Mitchell's report was the basis on which PIRA finally agreed procedures to put its weaponry "beyond use", a process not completed until 2005)
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1999· 1 entry
Career landmark: Member of the European Parliament (1999–2004).
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1998· 4 entries
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Peace — for their efforts to find a peaceful solution to the conflict in Northern Ireland.
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Awarded Nobel Peace Prize (1998).
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Awarded Seán MacBride Peace Prize (1998).
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Career landmark: Member of the 1st Northern Ireland Assembly (1998–2000).
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1997· 1 entry
Career landmark: member of the 52nd Parliament of the United Kingdom (1997–2001).
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1995· 2 entries
Awarded Peace Prize of Hesse (1995).
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Awarded honorary doctorate from the University of Nice-Sophia Antipolis (1995).
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1994· 1 entry
Career landmark: Member of the European Parliament (1994–1999).
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1992· 2 entries
The Ulster Unionists (then still the largest party) said they could envisage a range of cross-border bodies so long as these were under the control of the Northern Assembly, did not involve an overarching all-Ireland Cou
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Career landmark: member of the 51st Parliament of the United Kingdom (1992–1997).
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1989· 2 entries
The year in which Westminster created a statutory framework for what was now called integrated education, Sinn Féin made its position clear
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Career landmark: Member of the European Parliament (1989–1994).
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1987· 1 entry
Career landmark: member of the 50th Parliament of the United Kingdom (1987–1992).
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1984· 1 entry
Career landmark: Member of the European Parliament (1984–1989).
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1983· 1 entry
Career landmark: member of the 49th Parliament of the United Kingdom (1983–1987).
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1979· 2 entries
Career landmark: Member of the European Parliament (1979–1984).
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Career landmark: Leader of the Social Democratic and Labour Party (1979–2001).
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1977· 1 entry
President Jimmy Carter issued a statement promising U
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1974· 1 entry
Its first power-sharing executive; the European Parliament and the United Kingdom Parliament
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1973· 2 entries
In addition to the attempted kidnapping of Áine in 1973, Thérèse Hume recalls: “a lot of threatening letters, threatening phone calls, bullets sent in the post one time, a couple of bullets sent at different times.
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Thérèse Hume recalls: “a lot of threatening letters, threatening phone calls, bullets sent in the post one time, a couple of bullets sent at different times
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1969· 1 entry
Career landmark: Member of the Parliament of Northern Ireland (1969–1972).
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1963· 1 entry
Drawing on his Maynooth thesis research, Hume wrote a script for a television documentary on Derry, A City Solitary, that was broadcast on both the BBC and RTÉ
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1960· 2 entries
Aged 23, Hume helped establish the Derry Credit Union, the first cooperative community bank in Northern Ireland
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Hume married Patricia "Pat" Hone (22 February 1938 – 2 September 2021), a primary school teacher, whom he had first met two years earlier at a dancehall in Muff, County Donegal
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1958· 1 entry
Returned home to his native Derry, where he became a teacher at his Alma mater, St Columb's College, later, in 1964, earning an MA from Maynooth with a thesis exploring the conditions that drove Derry's principal expo
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1937· 2 entries
Born 1937-01-18.
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Into a working-class Catholic family in Derry, the eldest of seven children of Anne "Annie" (née Doherty), a seamstress, and Samuel Hume, a former soldier and shipyard worker
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