Political Prof. Civil rights leader. Peacemaker.
He served in government buildings in Belfast, London and Brussels, and a common guest to the United States as an advocate for the peace procedure and his hometown of Derry.
But while his life has largely been lived in the center of political attention, some of his accomplishments are less well known.
On the day one of Northern Ireland’s top politicians is buried, BBC News NI takes a look at Hume’s favourite.
Among the many words of homage presented to John Hume, one stands out: stubborn.
There is a popular word in this component of the global to refer to his manners: “thran”. And Hume can just include it.
In his political career, he has had to do so, whether he faced industry union leaders, the British army, sinn Féin or critics who ridiculed him for proceeding to speak at Sinn Féin in the 1990s.
His damn trend became apparent from the start: take this story, told in the Irish Times, of an eight-year-old Hume who had just won cash as a prize for elegance.
The warden, knowing that the boy had money, slammed a charity fundraising box under his nose while Hume looked straight ahead, refusing to tremble. Hume took the money.
He was first arrested just four years later, when a police officer lifted him up for intoxicating gambling (a football-based head game) on the street.
Hume’s circle of relatives was too poor to hire a lawyer, so Perry Mason, 12, represented himself.
“I have pleaded guilty,” Foyle later told BBC Radio Foyle. The cop stood up and said, ‘But of course I put you.’
“I said, ‘I don’t play football, I play one intoxicating.'”
Fine with two shillings, but praised by the Justice of the Peace for his clever defense.
The Education Act of 1944 replaced everything for young people in Derry’s poorest enclaves, as flexible schooling made school and learning available to many for the first time.
This replaced John Hume’s course forever, as he won a scholarship to St. Columb’s College and then went to Maynooth to obtain the priesthood, before leaving before completing his training. He later described himself as “a spoiled priest.”
After history and French, he returned home and to St Columb’s College to teach.
It is his career as an educator that he attributes to his repetitive taste of speaking, or, as intelligent hounds have called him, his “unique and transferable speech.”
Repeated maxims, such as “you can’t eat a flag” and “pour sweat, not blood,” were a planned tactic, he told The Times in 1995.
“I learned this when I was a teacher: you stay saying the same thing over and over again until someone answers you.
When asked about his greatest pride, Hume will pass on the Good Friday Agreement, his Nobel Peace Prize and the awards for anything he has completed before entering politics: the formation of Derry Credit Union.
In the 1950s, the city’s largely Catholic poor communities were trapped in a depressing monetary cycle: too poor to buy a space, but without a space to use as a dueral colpast to get a bank loan to help them on their way.
Hume and five other Bogside people broke this cycle by collecting their savings, a total of 8 and 10 shillings, to discover Northern Ireland’s first credit union in 1960.
The non-profit cooperative establishment has locals with a source of credit available.
Derry Credit Union has lately more than 30,000 members and more than one million loans from this meager seed fund.
Hume, 27, the youngest president of the Irish Credit Union League in 1964.
For decades, other people in Derry have relied on credit unions to fund everything from home and education to the realization of rock dreams: Undertones drummer Billy Doherty used loans to buy his drums and keep the band on the road.
Not Derry Credit Union? Teen kicks are not allowed.
John Hume had business interests in his pre-politics years.
In 1952 he founded Atlantic Harvest, a smoked salmon company that reportedly disappointed by the fact that salmon trapped in the Foyle estuary was sent to another part of the UK for smoking.
When politics took over, he sold his share of the company when he was first elected to the Northern Ireland Parliament in 1969, believing that a politician is not also a businessman.
Possibly it would have been a loss to the global business, although Hume had some other concept in his early years of bottling spring water, despite local skepticism about whether he would buy something he too could get for free, without taps.
“If I had given my life to Array … I would be much better off than I am today,” Hume told The Times in 1995.
As a politician, he used his monetary skills to make safe investments in his hometown.
Meeting with Seagate executive Brendan Hegarty at a bar in Los Angeles, Hume said such a call recommends a legacy of Derry or Donegal.
The verbal exchange of Seagate’s forerunner made a million-pound investment in a site in Derry in 1993.
He’s still one of the city’s employers.
As he made clear his arrest at the age of 12, John Hume the sport.
While he was a hands-on left-handed bowler on the cricket field, football is his number one sweetheart, from his days as a young player at St Columb’s to his role as president of Derry City FC.
Although the role was largely ceremonial, when the club struggled monetaryly, Hume launched himself into his tactile book: a letter to Sir Alex Ferguson took Manchester United to the club’s Brandywell Stadium for a friendly in 2000.
He was followed by Celtic and Real Madrid and, in 2003, Hume visited Barcelona where he was given the freedom of the city. There he convinced FC Barcelona president Joan Gaspart to bring his club to Derry.
Months later, Andreas Iniesta, Carlos Puyol, Marc Overmars and brazilian superstar ronaldk Ronaldinho struggled on Brandywell’s sloping terrain.
The fact that Barca won 5-0 is the only sign that there is a limit to the influence of the club president.
Hume preceded the club wherever he went.
In 2013, when Derry traveled to Turkey to face Trabzonspor, the local club prepared a traditional jersey to be handed over to the club’s prominent president. When they found out he had traveled, they gave it to the traveling fans.
Poor physical form forced John Hume to retire early; however, despite the worsening dementia, it did not disappear from sight in his hometown.
Instead, you may only be no noticeed at network events, awards ceremonies or watching Derry City from its same former headquarters in Brandywell.
He took the time to prevent and communicate his usual walks to others, greeting everyone who greeted him, or honked his horn in his direction.
The anecdotes are innumerable: taxi drivers who stopped their car to take it home, at no cost, of course; others who walked with him to make sure he came back and was healthy. cars that stopped on busy roads to allow him to cross easily.
His 40-year-old wife, Pat, can let John take care of his day knowing that the other people in town won’t let him hurt.
His illness has absolutely reduced his quality of life, he said in a 2015 interview.
“Derry is a very favorable city to dementiaArray … People love John.”
Growing up in Derry, the years of the troubled sunset, Hume cast a massive shadow.
In his later years, he went out and entered the trendy city he helped build.
It is perfectly general for him to enjoy it.