Editing Seán MacBride (section)

{{Short description|Irish Republican activist, politician, and diplomat (1904–1988)}}
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{{Infobox officeholder
| name          = Seán MacBride
| image         = Seán MacBride 1984.jpg
| caption       = MacBride in 1984
| office        = [[Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade|Minister for External Affairs]]
| taoiseach     = [[John A. Costello]]
| term_start    = 18 February 1948
| term_end      = 13 June 1951
| predecessor   = [[Éamon de Valera]]
| successor     = [[Frank Aiken]]
| office1       = Leader of [[Clann na Poblachta]]
| term_start1   = 21 January 1946
| term_end1     = 3 June 1965
| predecessor1  = New office
| successor1    = Office abolished
| office2       = [[List of Irish Republican Army chiefs of staff|Chief of Staff of the IRA]]
| term_start2   = 24 April 1936
| term_end2     = 1937
| predecessor2  = [[Moss Twomey]]
| successor2    = [[Tom Barry (Irish republican)|Tom Barry]]
| office3       = [[Teachta Dála]]
| term_start3   = [[1948 Irish general election|February 1948]]
| term_end3     = [[1957 Irish general election|March 1957]]
| constituency3 = [[Dublin South-West (Dáil constituency)|Dublin South-West]]
| term_start4   = [[1947 Dublin County by-election|October 1947]]
| term_end4     = [[1948 Irish general election|February 1948]]
| constituency4 = [[Dublin County (Dáil constituency)|Dublin County]]
| birth_date    = {{birth date|1904|1|26|df=y}}
| birth_place   = [[Paris]], France
| death_date    = {{death date and age|1988|1|15|1904|1|26|df=y}}
| death_place   = [[Dublin]], Ireland
| resting_place = [[Glasnevin Cemetery]], Dublin, Ireland
| nationality   = [[Irish people|Irish]]
| party         = {{ubl|[[Sinn Féin]] (1918–1931)|[[Saor Éire]] (1931)|[[Clann na Poblachta]] (1946 onwards)}}
| spouse        = {{marriage|Catalina Bulfin|1924|1976}}
| children      = 2
| father        = [[John MacBride]]
| mother        = [[Maud Gonne]]
| relatives     = [[Iseult Gonne]] (half sister)
| education     = {{ubl|[[Lycée Saint-Louis-de-Gonzague]]|Mount St Benedict's|[[Downside School]]}}
| alma_mater    = [[University College Dublin]]
}}
'''Seán MacBride''' (26 January 1904 – 15 January 1988)<ref name="EB" /> was an Irish Republican activist, politician, and diplomat who served as [[Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade|Minister for External Affairs]] from 1948 to 1951, Leader of [[Clann na Poblachta]] from 1946 to 1965 and [[List of Irish Republican Army chiefs of staff|Chief of Staff of the IRA]] from 1936 to 1937. He served as a [[Teachta Dála]] (TD) from 1947 to 1957.<ref name=oireachtas_db>{{cite web|url=https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/members/member/Se%C3%A1n-MacBride.D.1947-10-29/|title=Seán MacBride|work=Oireachtas Members Database|access-date=22 September 2009|archive-date=20 April 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190420184813/https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/members/member/Se%C3%A1n-MacBride.D.1947-10-29/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name=dib>{{cite web|url=https://www.dib.ie/biography/macbride-sean-a5109|title=MacBride, Seán|work=[[Dictionary of Irish Biography]]|last=Keane|first=Ronan|access-date=28 May 2022}}</ref>

Rising from a domestic Irish political career, he founded or participated in multiple 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.