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”
30. Hunger Protest
Bernadette Devlin, independent MP for Mid-Ulster, with three Stormont opposition MP's (left to right), John Hume, Austin Currie and Paddy O'Hanlon, during their two-day sit-in hunger strike outside 10 Downing Street to press their demand for a public enquiry into the treatment of detainees in Northern Ireland Photo: Hulton Archive
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