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unusual facts about Sean MacBride


Irish presidential election, 1983

Though former Nobel Peace Prize and Lenin Peace Prize winner Seán MacBride made it known in the Sunday Press newspaper that he wanted to contest the office, only Hillery was nominated and was declared re-elected without the need for a poll.


Niall MacDermot

From 1970 to 1990, he was Secretary-General of the International Commission of Jurists, succeeding Sean MacBride.


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