John Hume
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John Hume, KCSG (born 18 January 1937) is an Irish former politician from Derry, Northern Ireland.
He was a founding member of the Social Democratic and Labour Party and was co-recipient of the 1998 Nobel Peace Prize, alongside David Trimble. He served as the second leader of the Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP), the second in charge of the party from 1979 to 2001.
He has served as both a member of the European Parliament and a Member of the United Kingdom Parliament as well as a member of the Northern Ireland Assembly. He is known as one of Ireland's most influential figures and one of the initiators of the Northern Ireland peace process.
He is also a winner of the Gandhi Peace Prize and the Martin Luther King Award, making him the only recipient of the three major peace awards.
In 2010, he was named "Ireland's Greatest" in a nationwide survey conducted by Irish national broadcaster RTÉ to find Ireland's best individual.
Pope Benedict XVI made Hume a Knight Commander of the Papal Order of St. Gregory the Great in 2012.
Early life and education
Hume was born in 1937 into a working-class Catholic family in Derry, the eldest of seven children of Anne "Annie" (née Doherty), a seamstress, and Samuel Hume, a shipyard worker. He came from one of his great-grandfathers, a Scottish Presbyterian who immigrated to County Donegal, with a predominantly Irish Catholic history; however, his surname derives from one of his great-grandfathers, a Scottish Presbyterian who immigrated to County Donegal. Hume attended St Columb's College, Maynooth, Ireland's best Catholic seminary and a recognised college of the National University of Ireland, where he intended to study for the priesthood. Tomás Fiaich, the future cardinal and Primate of All Ireland, was one of his teachers.
Hume did not complete his clerical studies, but did obtain a M.A. A degree in French and history from the college in 1958 and then returned to Derry, where he became a tutor at St Columb's College. He was a founding member of the Credit Union movement in the city and chaired the University for Derry Committee in 1965, which was unsuccessful attempt to establish Northern Ireland's second university in Derry in the mid-1960s.
Hume became the youngest president of the Irish League of Credit Unions at the age of 27. He served in the role from 1964 to 1968. "All the things I've been doing," he said, "it's the thing I'm proud of because no movement has done more for the people of Ireland, north and south," than the credit union movement.
Hume, alongside people like Hugh Logue, became a central figure in the civil rights movement in the late 1960s. Hume was a prominent figure in the Derry Citizens' Action Committee. The DCAC was established in the aftermath of the 5 October 1968 march through Derry, which had drawn a lot of attention to the situation in Northern Ireland. The aim of the DCAC was to use the media surrounding recent activities to highlight slew of problems in Derry that had been largely ignored by the Unionist government for years. Unlike the Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association (NICRA), the DCAC was aimed at a local level, improving the situation for everybody in Derry, and maintaining a nonviolent attitude. The committee also had a Stewards Association, which was there to avoid any violence at marches or sit-downs.
Personal life
Hume married Patricia "Pat" Hone (22 February 1938 – 2 September 2021), a primary school teacher who had first met two years ago at a dancehall in Muff, County Donegal, on Hume. The couple had five children, Thérèse, née, Aidan, John and Mo, as well as 16 grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.
Political career
Hume became a member of Northern Ireland's Parliament in 1969, just after the civil rights movement began. He was elected to the Northern Ireland Assembly in 1973 and spent as Minister of Commerce in the short-lived power-sharing Executive. He ran unsuccessfully for the Westminster Parliament in October 1974 for the Londonderry constituency, and in 1983, he was elected for Foyle.
He participated in a 48-hour hunger strike to protest the internment of hundreds of suspected Irish republicans without a jury. Hume, according to state papers that have been released under the 30 year rule, an Irish diplomat eight years ago, believed in the return of internment.
Hume was a member of the Civil Authorities who authorised any soldier to disperse a group of three or more people in 1977. (Northern Ireland) 1922: Hume denied a statute under the Civil Authorities' Special Powers Act (Special Powers Act (Northern Ireland) Act (Northern Ireland) 1922: Hume, 1977. Lord Lowry, the Lord Chief Justice of Northern Ireland, ruled that the statute was ultra vires under Section 4 of the Government of Ireland Act 1920, which forbades the Parliament of Northern Ireland to make rules regarding the army.
He succeeded Gerry Fitt as the party's leader in 1979 as a founding member of the Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP). He served as one of Northern Ireland's three Members of the European Parliament as well as on Boston College's faculty, where he obtained an honorary degree in 1995.
Hume was directly involved in clandestine discussions with the British government and Sinn Féin in an attempt to bring Sinn Féin to the discussion table openly. According to reports, the negotiations may have led directly to the Anglo-Irish Agreement in 1985.
The overwhelming majority of unionists disapproved of the deal and held a massive and nonviolent public rally in Belfast City Centre to voice their disdisgust. Many Republicans and nationalists also opposed it because they had not understood it was not going to go far enough. Hume, on the other hand, continued negotiations with both governments and Sinn Féin. The "Hume-Adams process" in 1994 brought about the IRA ceasefire, which later provided the relatively stable background against which the Good Friday deal was broken.
Awards and honours
- LL.D. (honoris causa), Boston College, 1995. (one of 44 honorary doctorates Hume was awarded)
- LL.D. (honoris causa), University College Galway, 1996
- Four Freedoms, Freedom of Speech Medal Recipient, 1996
- Golden Doves for Peace Journalistic Prize, 1997
- Nobel Prize for Peace (co-recipient), 1998.
- Officier de Légion d’Honneur, France, 1999
- Martin Luther King Award, 1999
- International Gandhi Peace Prize, 2001.
- Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement, 2002.
- Freedom of two cities; Derry City in 2000 & Cork in 2004.
- Honorary D.Litt., St. Thomas University, Fredericton, N.B., 2007
- Honorary Patron, University Philosophical Society, Trinity College Dublin, 2007.
- Ireland's Greatest (public poll conducted by RTÉ), 2010
- Knight of Saint Gregory, 2012