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Desmond Tutu peering through a hole he knocked in a wall at St. Luke's Hospital for the Clergy, in central London. Desmond Tutu, the Nobel Peace Prize-winning activist for racial justice and LGBT rights, has died aged 90. He had been treated in hospital several times since 2015, after being diagnosed with prostate cancer in 1997. Photograph Rebecca Reid/PA Wire

Former Anglican Archbishop and Chairman of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC), Desmond Tutu, rests during a lunch break of the TRC's investigations Friday, Nov 28 1997 in Johannesburg into Winnie Madikizela-Mandela's alledged human rights abuses inflicted during the apartheid era. Photograph AP Photo/Adil Bradlow

Archbishop Desmond Tutu watching the Leinster Senior Football Championship match between Meath and Dublin, at Croke Park, yesterday. The archbishop who arrived in Dublin yesterday, is here to join celebrations marking the 30th anniversary of AFRI.
Photograph: Eric Luke/The Irish Times — Archbishop Desmond Tutu watching the Leinster Senior Football Championship match between Meath and Dublin, at Croke Park, yesterday. The archbishop who arrived in Dublin yesterday, is here to join celebrations marking the 30th anniversary of AFRI. Photograph: Eric Luke/The Irish Times

Archbishop Desmond Tutu of South Africa arriving at a conference in Dublin Castle - Partnership to Fight HIV/AIDS in Europe and Central Asia. Photograph by Frank Miller / The Irish Times

17.02.2009 Archbishop Desmond Tutu at the launch of the Music Room, a Ballymun Regeneration project, at St. Joseph's School, Ballymun, Co. Dublin.
Photograph: Eric Luke / The Irish Times — 17.02.2009 Archbishop Desmond Tutu at the launch of the Music Room, a Ballymun Regeneration project, at St. Joseph's School, Ballymun, Co. Dublin. Photograph: Eric Luke / The Irish Times

30-9-98- President Mary McAleese, with Archbishop Desmond Tutu and his wife Leah, in Aras An Uachtarin during a courtesy call as part of their visit to Ireland. Photograph Pat Langan The Irish Times

Nobel Peace Prize winner and former Archbishop of cape Town The Most Revd Desmond Tutu adressing a multi racial congregation at the Church Of Ireland's "Discivery Service" in Dublin's St Georges and St Thomas' Church Cathal Brugha Street Dublin yesterday. Photograph: Bryan O'Brien The Irish Times

Nobel Peace Prize winner and former Archbishop of cape Town ,The Most Revd Desmond Tutu adressing a multi racial congregation at the Church Of Ireland's "Discivery Service" in Dublin's St Georges and St Thomas' Church Cathal Brugha Street Dublin yesterday. Photograph: Bryan O'Brien

Archbishop Desmond Tutu greets girls at the Holy Cross School, Belfast during his visit to Ireland. Photograph Ann McManus

Niall Mellon follows Archbishop Emiritus Desmond Tutu on his arrival at the official launch and welcome of the 2006 Nial Mellon Township Initiative. More than 700 homes are being built in Mfuleni near Cape Town by Irish volunteers as part of the Niall Mellon Township Initiative. Picture Rogan Ward.

1984 - Bishop Desmond Tutu with Mr Sean MacBride SC, at Dublin Airport. Photograph: Tom Lawlor The Irish Times

2009 - Archbishop Desmond Tutu and President Mary McAleese at the launch of the Music Room, a Ballymun Regeneration project at St. Joseph's School Ballymun, Co. Dublin. Photograph: Eric Luke The Irish Times

2009-Archbishop Desmond Tutu with pupils from St. Josephs School at the launch of the Music Room, a Ballymun Regeneration project in Ballymun, Co. Dublin.
Photograph: Eric Luke The Irish Times — 2009-Archbishop Desmond Tutu with pupils from St. Josephs School at the launch of the Music Room, a Ballymun Regeneration project in Ballymun, Co. Dublin. Photograph: Eric Luke The Irish Times

2009- Archbishop Desmond Tutu with pupils from St. Josephs School at the launch of the Music Room, a Ballymun Regeneration project in Ballymun, Co. Dublin. Photograph Eric Luke The Irish Times

In this file photo taken on April 03, 1985 South African activist and Nobel Peace Prize and Anglican Archbishop Desmond Tutu (L) leads some 30 of his fellow-anglican clergymen through Johannesburg to police headquarters, to hand a petition calling for the release of political detainees. - South African anti-apartheid icon Desmond Tutu, described as the country's moral compass, died on December 26, 2021, aged 90, President Cyril Ramaphosa said. Photoraph GIDEON MENDEL/AFP via Getty Images)

Former South African Anglican Archbishop Desmond (2-R) dances with the Soweto Gospel Choir during the launch of the book 'Tutu: The Authorised Portrait', at the St Georges Cathedral in Cape Town, South Africa 06 October 2011 (reissued 26 December 2021). Desmond Tutu has died aged 90, the South African presidency said on 26 December 2021. As a leading spokesperson for the rights of black South Africans, Tutu in 1984 received the Nobel Prize for Peace for his role in the opposition to apartheid in South Africa. Photograph NIC BOTHMA/EPA

A couple stands by a picture of the late South African Nobel Peace Price Archbishop Desmond Tutu on the wake of his death outside St. George's Cathedral in Cape Town on December 26, 2021. - South African anti-apartheid icon Desmond Tutu, described as the country's moral compass, died on December 26, 2021, aged 90, President Cyril Ramaphosa said. (Photo by GIANLUIGI GUERCIA / AFP) (Photo by GIANLUIGI GUERCIA/AFP via Getty Images)

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