Sean MacBride, Nobel Peace Prize Winner, Dies

The Washington Post | January 16, 1988 | Copyright

Sean MacBride, 83, an international jurist, crusader for human rights and the only person to win both the Nobel and Lenin peace prizes, died of pneumonia Jan. 15 at his home here.

Mr. MacBride was an Irish Republican Army guerrilla leader in his teens and he went on to become a cofounder of the human rights group Amnesty International.

The nuclear disarmament advocate and one-time assistant secretary general of the United Nations also was one of Ireland's most noted constitutional and criminal lawyers. He returned to his Dublin law practice in 1979 after a 20-year hiatus espousing worldwide ...

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