The two women behind what became Northern Ireland’s foremost peace movement have been praised for their “immense courage” 50 years after the incident that sparked their activism. The tragic incident prompted the children’s aunt Mairead Corrigan to set up the Peace People along with the late Betty Williams from Andersonstown. A Peace People rally in the summer of 1976 following the deaths of the Maguire childrenThe two founders were joint recipients of the 1977 Nobel Peace Prize. Mairead Corrigan later married her sister’s widower Jackie. Mairead Corrigan Maguire pictured at her home in Co Down last year.