Editing Seán MacBride (section)

== Nobel Peace Prize and other international honours ==
MacBride's work was awarded the [[Nobel Peace Prize]] (1974)<ref name="UN chronicle">United Nations Chronicle, Sep95, Vol. 32 Issue 3, p. 14, 2/5p, 1c; (AN 9511075547)</ref> as a man who "mobilised the conscience of the world in the fight against injustice". He shared the prize with [[Eisaku Satō|Eisaku Sato]], the former [[Prime Minister of Japan|Japanese Prime Minister]] acknowledged for his commitment to peace and [[Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons|non-proliferation]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Eisaku Sato |url=https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1974/sato-facts.html |access-date=21 January 2015 |website=Nobel Prize |publisher=The Norwegian Nobel Institute}}</ref>

Other international honours followed: the [[Lenin Peace Prize]] in 1975; the Golden Plate Award of the [[Academy of Achievement|American Academy of Achievement]] in 1978;<ref>{{cite web |title=Golden Plate Awardees of the American Academy of Achievement |url=https://achievement.org/our-history/golden-plate-awards/#public-service |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161215023909/https://achievement.org/our-history/golden-plate-awards/#public-service |archive-date=15 December 2016 |access-date=4 November 2020 |website=www.achievement.org |publisher=[[American Academy of Achievement]]}}</ref> and the UNESCO Silver Medal for Service (1980). He received the Lenin Peace Prize for his opposition to what MacBride referred to as "this absolutely obscene arms race." He was one of only two to win both the Lenin and Nobel peace prizes, the other being [[Linus Pauling]].<ref>{{Cite news |last=Blair |first=William G. |date=16 January 1988 |title=Sean MacBride of Ireland Is Dead at 83 |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1988/01/16/obituaries/sean-macbride-of-ireland-is-dead-at-83.html |url-status=live |access-date=28 August 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190819111126/https://www.nytimes.com/1988/01/16/obituaries/sean-macbride-of-ireland-is-dead-at-83.html |archive-date=19 August 2019 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref>