
	Where results make sense

Topic: Gerry Conlon

Related Topics

Guildford Four

Jim Sheridan

Prevention of Terrorism Act

Birmingham Six

In the Name of the Father

Provisional IRA

Gullinbursti

Group marriage

TV series

Academy Award

Oneida Community

Sunday Bloody Sunday

Easter Island

Great Fire of London

Prince Rogers Nelson

In the News (Mon 7 Dec 09)

Northern Trust

Marvin Harrison

Peter Chernin

Gary Locke

Match Play

Penelope Cruz

Mickey Rourke

AR Rahman

Danny Boyle

Hugh Jackman

	Guildford Four - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Guildford Four were Paul Hill, Gerry Conlon, Patrick (Paddy) Armstrong and Carole Richardson, who were wrongly convicted in the United Kingdom in October 1975 for the Provisional IRA's Guildford pub bombing which killed five and injured over one hundred people.
		Several family members of Gerry Conlon, including his father Giuseppe, his aunt and his 14- and 16-year-old cousins (the Maguire Seven), were also imprisoned in the same case (mainly for explosives offences).
		Gerry Conlon's autobiography Proved Innocent was adapted into the Oscar- and Bafta-award winning 1993 film In the Name of the Father, starring Daniel Day-Lewis, Emma Thompson and Pete Postlethwaite.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gerry_Conlon (610 words)

	In the Name of the Father
		Gerry's ordeal was magnified when the Maguire Seven were convicted on March 4, 1976 of handling nitroglycerin, and in 1980 his dad died in prison before he was able to prove his innocence.
		Gerry Conlon and his three codefendants were wrongly accused by the police, wrongly indicted by the prosecutors, wrongly convicted by the jury, and wrongly sentenced by the judge.
		Gerry readily admits that when arrested at age twenty for the Guildford Pub Bombings that he was a happy-go-lucky, hard-drinking petty thief who liked to chase girls.
	www.justicedenied.org /inthenameofthefather.htm (3244 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Politics \| Special Reports \| Blair apologises to Guildford Four family
		Gerry Conlon, who was jailed for the Guildford pub bombings of 1974, then released after 15 years having had his conviction quashed, outside parliament with his family.
		Gerry Conlon was one of four people - the others being Paddy Armstrong, Paul Hill and Carole Richardson - arrested in 1974 and wrongfully jailed for an IRA bomb attack on the Horse and Groom pub in Guildford.
		Gerry Conlon's father and members of Annie Maguire's family were also later arrested and jailed for the attack and other bombings in Woolwich, south-east London following confessions extracted by the police that allegedly identified them as being involved.
	politics.guardian.co.uk /northernirelandassembly/story/0,9061,1408973,00.html (500 words)

	Proved Innocent - Review - British Justice stinks (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Gerry Conlon was brought up on the Lower Falls road in Belfast, his parents Guiseppe and Sarah were respectable people, who despaired at the antics of their oldest child.
		Gerry was taken to a local police station in Belfast, and it was not until the middle of the next night was he to know why he was arrested.
		Gerry then wrote the statements that he believed he could retract, and that they would be shown for what they were: a cobbled together story written by a desperate man. By signing them he signed away 15 years of his life.
	www.ciao.co.uk /Proved_Innocent__Review_5309424 (2702 words)

	Boston.com / News / World / Europe / Blair apologizes to wrongly convicted men (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Gerry Conlon was one of four people found guilty of two IRA bombings of Guildford pubs on Oct. 5, 1974, which killed five people and wounded 54.
		Gerry Conlon and three others were acquitted on appeal in 1989 after authorities concluded their confessions to police had been fabricated and forensic evidence favorable to their defense had been suppressed.
		The other seven, including Guiseppe Conlon, were acquitted in 1991, long after they had served their sentences, when the forensic evidence used to convict them was discredited.
	www.boston.com /news/world/europe/articles/2005/02/09/blair_apologizes_to_wrongly_convicted_men (581 words)

	Downing Street Says...: Gerry Conlon Apology
		Asked for clarification about the Gerry Conlon issue, the Prime Minister's Official Spokesman (PMOS) said that as he had already said at the morning lobby, it was always a matter for the Speaker of House as to whether he thought it was an appropriate question for PMQs or not.
		Gerry Conlon had said that the family were more than happy with the way things had turned out, and that was the important thing.
		Put to the PMOS again that Gerry Conlon had said the Prime Minister had told him that he would "look into" financial compensation and also medical help, the PMOS repeated that the Home Office was the proper department to be dealing with the issue, and he did not want to prejudge that process.
	www.downingstreetsays.org /archives/001419.html (2078 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Magazine \| Faces of the week (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Hollywood star Daniel Day-Lewis, who portrayed Gerry Conlon in the film In The Name of the Father, had joined the campaign for the apology and spoke of the "irreparable hurt" caused to Sarah Conlon, her son Gerry and the rest of the family.
		In Gerry Conlon's mind was not only the bitterness of the injustice he and his family suffered, but also the ensuing "whispering campaign that I'd been released on a technicality".
		And Sarah Conlon was overjoyed at the manner of the apology.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/magazine/4254303.stm (946 words)

	USATODAY.com - Blair apologizes to 11 wrongly jailed (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Gerry Conlon, who was portrayed by actor Daniel Day-Lewis, welcomed Blair's apology, which was delivered in a televised address.
		Four of the wrongfully accused — Gerry Conlon, Paddy Armstrong, Paul Hill and Carole Richardson, who became known as the Guildford Four — were sentenced to life imprisonment for the Oct. 5, 1974, bombing at the Horse and Groom pub in Guildford that killed five people.
		Gerry Conlon says police beat him during interrogation and coerced him to implicate seven others as bombmakers, including his father; his aunt, Anne Maguire; four members of her family; and a family friend.
	www.usatoday.com /news/world/2005-02-09-apology_x.htm?csp=34 (679 words)

	RTE News - Conlon welcomes Blair apology
		Gerry Conlon has welcomed Tony Blair's public apology to him and ten others for their wrongful imprisonment for the IRA bomb attacks in Britain in 1974.
		Gerry Conlon, a member of what became known as the Guildford Four, was freed after the Court of Appeal quashed his sentence in 1989.
		Annie Maguire and members of her family were jailed with Guiseppe Conlon after they were wrongly identified as being involved in the IRA bomb plots in Guildford and Woolwich.
	www.rte.ie /news/2005/0209/conlon.html (416 words)

	Boston.com / News / World / Blair apologizes for wrongful convictions in IRA bombings
		Members of the Conlon and Maguire families were jailed for 1974 Irish Republican Army bombings in Guildford and Woolwich in England that killed seven people and injured more than 100.
		The arrests and convictions of Gerry Conlon, his father, Giuseppe, and nine others achieved international notoriety when the case was dramatized in the 1993 movie, which earned seven Oscar nominations.
		Four of the wrongfully accused -- Gerry Conlon, Paddy Armstrong, Paul Hill, and Carole Richardson, who became known as the Guildford Four -- were sentenced to life imprisonment for the Oct. 5, 1974, bombing at the Horse and Groom pub in Guildford that killed five people.
	www.boston.com /news/world/articles/2005/02/10/blair_apologizes_for_wrongful_convictions (325 words)

	phoenixnewtimes.com \| Film \| THE RAGE OF INNOCENCE \| 1994-01-26 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Conlon was a none-too-promising Belfast youth who had relocated to London in the early 70s looking for a new start, and got one the hard way.
		Conlon's father eventually died in prison in 1980, nine years before an English lawyer named Gareth Peirce presented solid evidence that not only were all of these people innocent, but that the police had knowingly suppressed evidence proving that they were.
		When Gerry and Guiseppe meet in jail for the first time, the first thing out of Gerry's mouth is a long, involved monologue about how he's been haunted all his life by Guiseppe's failure to praise him after a football win.
	www.phoenixnewtimes.com /issues/1994-01-26/film/film2.html (891 words)

	Danny Morrison - Irish Political News - gerry conlon blasts ill treatment of muslims (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Conlon, who received a public apology from British Prime Minister Tony Blair last week, was jailed along with Paddy Armstrong, Paul Hill and Carole Richardson for the bombing of the Horse and Groom pub in Guildford and became known since then as the Guildford Four.
		Conlon, now 51, further expressed his heartfelt solidarity with the detainees at the US Guantanamo detention camp, saying they would carry the social stigma as he and his colleagues did.
		Conlon revealed that he told his solicitor Gareth Peirce, who is also a lawyer for a Briton recently freed from Guantanamo, that it would be hard for the men to re-integrate into society.
	www.dannymorrison.com /forum/showthread.php?t=4496 (544 words)

	SEARC'S WEB GUIDE - Gerry Conlon (born 1955)
		Gerry Conlon was born and educated in Belfast.
		Gerry Conlon's father, Guiseppe Conlon, was arrested when he went to England to find out about his son's arrest and was subsequently convicted of handling explosives in the Maguire 7 trial.
		Conlon was sentenced to 'not less than' thirty years while Armstrong and Richardson were given sentences of 35 years and detention at the Secretary of State's Pleasure respectively.
	www.searcs-web.com /conlon.html (878 words)

	Images of Lawyering
		Unfortunately, Conlon and Hill are forced to leave their lodgings and spend the evening in a local park with a homeless man on the same night of the bombing of Guildford's Horse and Groom Pub.
		When Conlon moves to England, the audience is reminded of the violent repression of Northern Irish Catholics (through newspaper and television accounts), as well as the prejudice against the Irish in England (Conlon and Hill are often jeered at and called "paddies," a derogatory term for the Irish).
		In the film, when Pierce meets with Gerry Conlon after his father's death, she says, "They ought to take the word compassion out of the English dictionary." She is referring to the fact that officials refused to release Guiseppe Conlon even though they knew he was extremely ill.
	tarlton.law.utexas.edu /lpop/etext/usf/blum30.htm (5032 words)

	The Sword: RIP Gerald Willick, O.Carm. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		On 11 December 1915, Gerry was born in New Germany, Ontario, the son of the late John and Elizabeth (Seiffert) Willick.
		Gerry sent back pictures of himself with some of the youngsters in the parish, and you can see in only one year he did a fine job of working with the people.
		Gerry was one of the most respected and likeable members of the PCM Province who found great happiness and goodness in his life as a Carmelite.
	carmelnet.org /sword/v59/RestInPeace/willick/willick.htm (1447 words)

	Name of the Father full of stellar performances (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		But the Conlons are innocent (as revealed by Gerry Conlon's autobiography, Proved Innocent) and most of the movie centers on the ordeal that Gerry and father Guiseppe (Pete Postlethwaite) face in prison while working to prove their innocence on the outside.
		In Belfast, Gerry Conlon is a petty thief, stripping scrap metal from roofs and constantly incurring the wrath of both British soldiers patrolling the streets and IRA leaders in the community.
		Along the way, of course, Gerry rebels against his father's "weakness," only to equally loathe the tactics of an IRA inmate (the real culprit of the bombings) after taking him to be a surrogate father in the grim confines of prison.
	www-tech.mit.edu /V113/N66/father.66a.html (630 words)

	::: u.tv ::: (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Guildford Four member Gerry Conlon today paid an emotional tribute to members of the nationalist SDLP for standing by him as he sought to clear his name.
		Gerry Conlon and Guiseppe Conlon were among 11 people arrested and wrongfully convicted of an IRA bombing campaign which killed five people in Guilford and also mounted attacks in Woolwich.
		Recounting how Sarah Conlon had to travel to prison in different parts of England to see her husband and son, Councillor Walsh said she had shown great pride and dignity throughout the ordeal, which saw Guiseppe die while serving his sentence.
	www.utvlive.com /newsroom/indepth.asp?id=56615&pt=n (894 words)

	deseretnews.com \| Blair apologizes for wrong jailings
		Gerry Conlon was one of four people, along with Paddy Armstrong, Paul Hill and Carole Richardson, jailed for an IRA bomb attack in 1974 on a pub at Guildford near London frequented by British troops.
		Guiseppe Conlon and members of Annie Maguire's family were also arrested on charges related to bombings in southeast London.
		Conlon met privately with Blair and said the prime minister "went further than we actually expected" in his expression of personal regret.
	deseretnews.com /dn/view/0,1249,600110971,00.html (470 words)

	CBC News: Blair apologizes to families jailed in 1974 bombings
		Members of the Conlon and Maguire families were jailed in connection with bombings by the Irish Republican Army in the English towns of Guildford and Woolwich in 1974.
		Gerry Conlon was one of the so-called "Guildford Four" who were found guilty in two bombings.
		The "Maguire Seven" were acquitted of the Woolwich bombings in 1991, long after Conlon's father Giuseppe had died in prison and after the others had served their sentences.
	www.cbc.ca /story/world/national/2005/02/09/blair-conlon050209.html (497 words)

	Bloomberg.com: U.K.
		Belfast-born Gerry Conlon and three others served 15 years in jail for the bombing of the pubs in Guildford, near London, before the convictions were overturned in 1989.
		Gerry Conlon campaigned for an apology with Northern Ireland's Social Democratic and Labor Party and the Belfast-based newspaper, The Irish News.
		Gerry Conlon, Paul Hill, Paddy Armstrong and Carole Richardson were convicted on 33 charges of murder and conspiracy in September 1975.
	www.bloomberg.com /apps/news?pid=10000102&sid=aWF92bO3k0gE (938 words)

	Blair apologises to 11 wrongly imprisoned - World - www.smh.com.au
		Three men from Belfast, Gerry Conlon, Paul Hill and Paddy Armstrong, and an Englishwoman, Carole Richardson, spent 15 years in jail after police falsified confessions on the Irish Republican Army bombing of a pub in Guildford, south of London, in 1974 that killed four soldiers and a civilian.
		Mr Blair's apology extended to all members of the Guildford Four, as well as Gerry Conlon's father, Giuseppe, and his sister-in-law, Annie Maguire, and five of her family members and friends who became known as the Maguire Seven.
		Mr Conlon, who struggled with cocaine addiction after the Guildford Four's convictions were quashed in 1989 but has subsequently campaigned for an apology to his family and friends, travelled to Westminster on Wednesday to witness Mr Blair's statement.
	www.smh.com.au /news/World/Blair-apologises-to-11-wrongly-imprisoned/2005/02/10/1107890348488.html (738 words)

	Blair apology ends 30-year ordeal - World - www.theage.com.au
		The 30-year ordeal of Gerry Conlon and other members of the Guildford Four is one of the most famous miscarriages of justice in Britain.
		Mr Conlon's ordeal was depicted in an Oscar-nominated film, In the Name of the Father, which starred Daniel Day-Lewis as Gerry Conlon.
		Mr Conlon, who struggled with a cocaine addiction after his 1989 release but has subsequently campaigned for an apology to his family and friends, travelled to Westminster on Wednesday to witness Mr Blair's statement.
	www.theage.com.au /news/World/Blair-apology-ends-30year-ordeal/2005/02/10/1107890344420.html?from=moreStories (590 words)

	INNOCENT - Fighting miscarriages of justice
		Gerry Conlon, with his sisters Anne and Bridie clinging joyfully to him, emerges from the Old Bailey, handsome, smiling and punching the air as he is freed after 15 years of wrongful imprisonment.
		For Conlon and the rest of the men who had been convicted of two pub bombings in Guildford in 1974, the past had been defined by corrupt police officers, complicit forensic scientists and gullible courts.
		Conlon is alone in a small flat on the south coast of England.
	www.innocent.org.uk /misc/downandout.html (2005 words)

	Memorable Quotes from In the Name of the Father (1993) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Gerry Conlon: You're not looking me in the eye when you're speaking to me. You see, I know how to look at people without blinking as well.
		Gerry Conlon: I'll be older than you when I get out of this place.
		Gerry Conlon: I don't deserve to spend the rest of my life in here do I? Giuseppe Conlon: All they done was block out the light.
	us.imdb.com /title/tt0107207/quotes (609 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Based on a true story, In the Name of the Father is about a young Irish man, Gerry Conlon, who was wrongfully imprisoned in England in the 1970's for a terrorist bombing.
		Together, she and Gerry are determined to prove his innocence and eventually, "The Guildford Four" are proven innocent and released.
		However, Gerry's father had died in prison and to this day, his son Gerry is fighting to clear his name.
	www.stormpages.com /revolution1/movies/nameof.html (344 words)

	CBS News \| Blair Sorry For IRA Jailings \| February 9, 2005 14:00:01
		Gerry Conlon, who was released after serving 15 years in jail, displays the letter of apology he received from British Prime Minister Tony Blair.
		Guiseppe Conlon and his son, Gerry, were imprisoned for the bombings.
		Guiseppe Conlon died in prison in 1980, while Gerry Conlon was released after serving 15 years.
	www.cbsnews.com /stories/2005/02/09/world/main672681.shtml (403 words)

	C4 News - UK - UK - Blair apology (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Tony Blair made a televised statement apologising to 11 members of the Maguire and Conlon families, wrongly jailed for IRA pub bombings in Woolwich and Guildford in 1974.
		There was a miscarriage of justice in the case of Gerard Conlon and all the Guildford Four as well as Giuseppe Conlon and Annie Maguire and all of the Maguire Seven.
		Gerry Conlon was one of four people jailed who became known as the Guildford Four.
	www.channel4.com /news/2005/02/week_2/09_conlon.html (550 words)

Try your search on: Qwika (all wikis)