Seán MacBride (1904 - 1988)

Born 26 Jan 1904 in Paris, France

Ancestors

Husband of Catalina (Bulfin) MacBride — married 26 Jan 1925 in Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland

Died 15 Jan 1988 at age 83 in Dublin, Ireland

Biography

Seán MacBride is Notable.

Seán was born in 1904. He was the son of John MacBride and Maud Gonne.

Seán MacBride was an Irish Clann na Poblachta politician who served as Minister for External Affairs from 1948 to 1951, Leader of Clann na Poblachta from 1946 to 1965 and Chief of Staff of the IRA from 1936 to 1939. He served as a Teachta Dála (TD) from 1947 to 1957.

Rising from a domestic Irish political career, he founded or participated in many international organisations of the 20th century, including the United Nations, the Council of Europe and Amnesty International. He received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1974, the Lenin Peace Prize for 1975–1976 and the UNESCO Silver Medal for Service in 1980.

He passed away in 1988.

Éamon Ó Cuív wrote in The Galway Review in 2015 that:

Sean McBride's daughter Anna who died a few short years ago was married to my mother's first cousin Declan White. Declan is the son of a sister of Sinead de Valera ...

Sources

See Also:

• King, Carla. MacBride, Seán. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography online edition (23 Sep 2004), rev. 6 Jan 2011, available here by subscription.

• "United States, GenealogyBank Obituaries, 1980-2014," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVPL-B6QP : accessed 29 June 2018), Sean Macbride, Portland, Oregon, United States, 16 Jan 1988; from "Recent Newspaper Obituaries (1977 - Today)," database, GenealogyBank.com (http://www.genealogybank.com : 2014); citing Oregonian, The, born-digital text.

• Biography.com - Seán MacBride

• Find A Grave: Memorial #5746942, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com : accessed 29 June 2018), memorial page for Sean MacBride (26 Jan 1904–15 Jan 1988), citing Glasnevin Cemetery, Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland ; Maintained by Find A Grave.

• Wikipedia - Seán MacBride
• This WikiTree profile is referenced from Wikidata: Item Q244395, en:Wikipedia