him receive a number of awards, notably the Tipperary International Peace Award in 1995, the Peace Activist Award from the Tanenbaum Center for Interreligious Understanding and, in 1998, the post of honorary grand marshal of the St Patrick's Day parade in Dublin. He received the Order of the British Empire in 2004. He finally left the Parades Commission for good in 2006. During the 2000 loyalist feud between the UVF and the Loyalist Volunteer Force John White asked Magee to mediate between the warring factions. However the UVF, who wanted to go on the offensive, rejected the proposal out of hand. Magee died in 2009 after battling Parkinson's disease. He was married to Maureen Reynolds and had two sons and a daughter, with his wife and one son dying before him. References 1930 births 2009 deaths People of The Troubles (Northern Ireland) Presbyterian ministers from Northern Ireland Alumni of Trinity College Dublin People associated with Ulster University Clergy from Belfast Neurological disease deaths in Ireland Deaths from Parkinson's disease Alumni of Ulster University