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MacBride

[muhk-brahyd]

noun

  1. Seán 1904–88, Irish politician and diplomat, born in France: Nobel Peace Prize 1974.



MacBride

/ məkˈbraɪd /

noun

  1. Sean (ʃɔːn). 1904–88, Irish statesman; minister for external affairs (1948–51); chairman of Amnesty International (1961–75); Nobel Peace Prize 1974; UN commissioner for Namibia (1974–76)

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Eyewitness Patricia MacBride, who is originally from Londonderry, said many of the rioters were "young people - late-teens, early 20s".

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This “modern waste,” as Samantha MacBride, an assistant professor at Baruch College, calls this jumble of materials, is notable for its heterogeneity, toxicity, and tonnage.

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A previous version of this article incorrectly spelled the names of James Macbride Sterrett, Adlumia Dent and the Forest Hills neighborhood.

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These include Dent’s daughter Adlumia Dent, and her husband, minister and philosopher James Macbride Sterrett.

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Foreland subsidized the rent on the painter Caitlin MacBride’s studio space in exchange for the artist’s teaching a five-session self-portraiture class for people in Catskill, ages 12 up.

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