- Born
- May 21, 1950
- Died
- March 23, 2017 (aged 66)
- Place of birth
- Derry, County Londonderry, Northern Ireland
Biography
James Martin Pacelli McGuinness was an Irish republican Sinn Féin politician who was the deputy First Minister of Northern Ireland from May 2007 to January 2017. A former Provisional Irish Republican Army leader, McGuinness was the MP for Mid Ulster from 1997 until his resignation in 2013. He was played by Colm Meaney in the 2016 film The Journey.