Sean MacBride, Irish rebel, crusader for human rights

Chicago Sun-Times | January 16, 1988 | Copyright

DUBLIN, Ireland Sean MacBride, an international jurist, crusader for human rights who won both the Nobel and Lenin peace prizes, died of pneumonia at his home here Friday. He was 83.

Mr. MacBride devoted his life to the defense of human rights and to the cause of Irish nationalism.

A founding member and chairman of the human rights group Amnesty International, he also served at different times as Irish foreign minister, commander in chief of the Irish Republican Army and an assistant secretary-general of the United Nations.

Born in Paris in 1904 to Maj. John MacBride, who was executed ...

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