Former SDLP John Hume has been honoured by the University of Liverpool.
The Nobel Prize laureate, who represented Foyle for 21 years in the House of Commons and Northern Ireland for 25 years in the European Parliament, received an Honorary Doctorate of Laws at a ceremony yesterday in Liverpool Philharmonic Hall.
He later attended a dinner for honorary graduates in Liverpool Town Hall.
Mr Hume was a major figure in the Catholic civil rights campaign and a founder member of the Social Democratic and Labour Party which he would lead between 1979 and 2001.
He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1988 along with former Ulster Unionist leader David Trimble, four years after helping secure an IRA ceasefire.
Both men were honoured for forging the Belfast Agreement. In 2001, he also received the Mahatma Ghandi Prize from the Indian Government and the Martin Luther King Peace Prize in 1999 in the United States.
Mr Hume retired from active politics in 2005. The former MP holds many honorary degrees including Queen's University in Belfast, several universities in the United States including Boston College, the University of Nevada and Brown University in Rhode Island and the University of Alberta in Canada.