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Martin McGuinness
Image courtesy of the Barack Obama Presidential Library
Martin McGuinness
Image courtesy of the Barack Obama Presidential Library

Martin McGuinness

Irish, 1950 - 2017
Place ActiveDerry, Northern Ireland
Place ActiveBelfast, Northern Ireland
Martin McGuinness was an Irish politician who served as the Deputy First Minister of Northern Ireland from May 2007 until January 2017. McGuinness was Sinn Féin’s chief negotiator in reaching the Good Friday Agreement between the United Kingdom and Ireland in 1998.