Mr. Hume, a founder member and former leader of the SDLP was awarded the Nobel peace prize in 1998 after the ratification of the Belfast Agreement.
SDLP leader, Colum Eastwood, said Mr. Hume’s passing was a “loss of the 20th century”.
US President Bill Clinton called him ‘Ireland’s Martin Luther King’ while First Minister Arlene Foster described him as “a giant in Irish nationalism”
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John Hume in a thoughtful moment at the SDLP party conference in Newcastle, Co. Down in 1979.
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John Hume and his wife Pat arrive at St. Johns PrimarySchool,Londonderry, to cast their vote in the European Elections.
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John Hume with, Pat Hume and Mariam O'Callaghan who proposed John Hume for Irelands Greatest at the SDLP Conference
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Former U.S. President Bill Clinton shares a quiet word with John Hume before his address in the Guildhall Square, during his visit to Northern Ireland.