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  Maguire Seven   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Seven Irish victims of a miscarriage of justice.
In 1976 Annie Maguire, five members of her family, and a family friend were imprisoned in London for possessing explosives.
All seven of the convictions were overturned in June 1991.
www.tiscali.co.uk /reference/encyclopaedia/hutchinson/m0030805.html   (172 words)

  
 Maguire Seven - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Maguire Seven case was an infamous incident of wrongful conviction in the United Kingdom.
The seven, members of the same family, were falsely accused of running a bomb-making factory for the Provisional IRA in the early 1970s.
Obituary of Sister Sarah Clarke, a key figure in the campaign to free the Seven and other wrongfully imprisoned people, which tells the story of the wrongful imprisonments.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Maguire_Seven   (249 words)

  
 Vision 21 Meeting Minutes December 28, 2000   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Maguire explained the perception by some that the current district structure of the board has caused some board members at times to act as representatives of their region versus the entire state.
Maguire answered that it is reasonable to assume that there will be additional costs involved with establishing the district system; however, it would be difficult to quantify those costs with any level of certainty.
Maguire stressed the need to be careful not to confuse the creation of the new district with some kind of wholesale disruption of the current governance/planning agency relationship.
www.dot.state.az.us /Vision21/minutes/min122800g.asp   (2137 words)

  
 Return to an address of the honourable the House of Commons dated 12 July 1990 for the inquiry into the circumstances ...
Considers the circumstances leading to the conviction in March 1976 of four members of the Maguire family and three others (the Maguire Seven) for the possession of nitroglycerine.
The case against the Maguire Seven rests on scientific evidence which showed that each of the male defendants had traces of nitroglycerine on their hands, which suggested that they had each knowingly handled the material.
Discusses the background to the case and the relationship between the Maguire Seven and the Guildford Four, whose conviction was set aside in October 1989.
www.bopcris.ac.uk /bopall/ref19642.html   (338 words)

  
 New Scientist Premium- Faulty forensic testing convicted Maguire Seven - This Week
Sloppy laboratory practice helped to convict members of the Maguire family, a leading forensic scientist said, following the disclosure in the Court of Appeal that test kits used to detect traces of explosives were contaminated.
At the Old Bailey in 1976, six members of the Maguire family and a friend were convicted of running an IRA bomb factory in north London on the basis of forensic evidence, and sentenced to up to 14 years in jail.
The last of the Maguire Seven was released from prison in 1985.
www.newscientist.com /article/mg13017691.600.html   (267 words)

  
 CNN.com - Tobey Maguire: A thoughtful 'Spider-Man' - May 2, 2002
Maguire talked to CNN about his childhood, growing up poor, his long-range plans, and how it all began with a $100 bribe from his mother.
Maguire: When I was a little kid, I don't think it affected me. I did feel it as I got older, because you start to compare yourself to other kids.
Maguire: The word "owe them," or saying it that way, I don't really feel like I owe anybody anything to be honest with you.
edition.cnn.com /2002/SHOWBIZ/Movies/05/02/ca.s02.tobey.maguire   (930 words)

  
 Politics | Lord Donaldson dies aged 84
Former master of the rolls Lord Donaldson, who presided over the trial of the Maguire Seven and was a driving force in court modernisation, has died at the age of 84.
He came to prominence in 1976 when he presided at the trial of the Maguire Seven, a group wrongly convicted of terrorism offences relating to the troubles in Northern Ireland.
An inquiry said he failed to appreciate that new evidence on the last day of the trial removed the whole basis of the prosecution case and that he allowed inadmissible evidence to be presented to the jury.
politics.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,5275331-107977,00.html   (314 words)

  
 Maguire Seven gran receives honour and praise for forgiveness - news from ekklesia
Annie Maguire, the Irish woman who was wrongfully imprisoned in Britain for terrorism offences, has received a papal honour from the Archbishop of Westminster as those around her praised her ability to forgive.
Maguire, now a great-grandmother, spent nine years in prison after being wrongly convicted of running an IRA bomb factory from her home.
Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O’Connor presented Mrs Maguire with the Bene Merenti Medal at the conclusion of a packed 11 am Mass at the Sacred Heart of Jesus parish, Quex Road, London, which she attends during the week.
www.ekklesia.co.uk /content/news_syndication/article_050523mag.shtml   (687 words)

  
 RTE News - Maguire awarded Bene Merenti medal
The medal was presented by the Archbishop of Westminster, Cardinal Murphy-O'Connor, at Mrs Maguire's parish church at Kilburn in north London this morning.
Mrs Maguire served a nine-year sentence for possessing nitro-glycerine which was allegedly passed to the IRA to make bombs.
In 1991, the Maguire family, who had all served their sentences, were cleared of all charges.
www.rte.ie /news/2005/0522/maguirea.html   (228 words)

  
 Bates College | Baseball Press Release
Maguire, a center fielder named to the second team, was one of the Bobcats' top offensive threats this season hitting out of the leadoff slot.
Maguire's team-leading 40 hits were the second-highest single-season total in Bates history.
Maguire also led the team in slugging (.595) and on-base percentage (.451).
www.bates.edu /x69937.xml   (416 words)

  
 Alligator Story   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
The possibility of such a tragedy has residents of UF's Maguire Village family housing complex fearing the recent rezoning of parking spaces in their community.
Maguire Village residents will be restricted from parking in the designated spaces from 8:30 a.m.
However, seven-year Maguire Village resident Ed Greaves, 36, said he thinks the parking change is likely to cause trouble.
www.alligator.org /edit/issues/97-sumr/970701/b01vill.htm   (546 words)

  
 Irish Abroad - Irish American News
In the words of Lord Justice McCowan, the seven were acquitted “on the ground that the possibility of innocent contamination cannot be excluded and on this ground alone”.
In other words, and in plain English, the judges were really saying that the Maguire Seven might or might not have been handling explosives, but there wasn’t sufficient evidence one way or the other to uphold their conviction.
It stopped well short of the absolute exoneration that the Maguire Seven were entitled to have been given and it is for this reason that Gerry Conlon is pursuing a public apology for his father’s wrongful incarceration.
www.irishabroad.com /news/irishpost/featurearticles/neverforgetirishvictims.asp   (790 words)

  
 Gregory Maguire :: Seven Spiders Spinning - Harper Collins Publishers
What the girls didn't know was that the seven baby Siberian snow spiders, attracted by the warmth of the campfire, had scrabbled through the underbrush of the forest toward them.
Each one of the seven spiders, crouching in the weeds, warmed by the heat of the campfire, opened its eyes at last.
The foregoing is excerpted from Seven Spiders Spinning by Gregory Maguire and Dirk Zimmer.
www.gregorymaguire.com /children/spiders_excerpt.html   (712 words)

  
 seattle.indymedia.org
The PM said sorry for the plight of the prisoners who became known as the Guilford Four and Maguire Seven, who spent up to 14 years in prison for crimes they did not commit.
The cases of the Guilford Four and the Maguire Seven became world-famous through Oscar-winning 1993 film In the Name of the Father, starring Daniel Day-Lewis as Gerry Conlon.
His father Guiseppe was one of seven others jailed in connection with that attack and another bombing in south east London.
seattle.indymedia.org /en/2005/02/244605.shtml   (210 words)

  
 ZEENEWS.COM   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Maguire was awarded the medal in recognition of her "remarkable ability to forgive" as well as for community work, said the head of the Roman catholic church in Britain, Archbishop of Westminster cardinal Cormac Murphy-O'Connor in a statement.
Maguire, a Londoner of northern Irish origin now aged 68, was imprisoned in 1976 along with five members of her family and a family friend following a pair of deadly bombings on mainland Britain two years before that claimed seven lives.
Maguire was released after serving nine years of her 16-year sentence.
www.zeenews.com /links/articles.asp?aid=218551&sid=WOR   (347 words)

  
 What happens when you tell a lie?
Maguire constructs a biography for her and a political situation in Oz, filling in the backstory for the tale of Dorothy that we all know.
Maguire sets the characters of this familiar story in the midst of the power struggles between the noble families and church officials of Renaissance Italy.
It was the all of us, and then we learned to count to seven, and saw that we should be able to count to the next number up, the seven plus one.
blogs.salon.com /0002889/2004/01/20.html   (853 words)

  
 BBC ON THIS DAY | 4 | 1976: Guilty verdict for 'Maguire Seven'   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
As Mrs Maguire was carried kicking and screaming from the dock she shouted: "I'm innocent you bastards.
Anne Maguire, too, was implicated in the Guildford bombings and was also arrested in December 1974 and charged with the murder of 18-year-old WRAC recruit Caroline Slater, who died in the attacks.
All the members of the 'Maguire Seven' served their sentences and were released with the exception of Giuseppe Conlon who died in prison in 1980.
news.bbc.co.uk /onthisday/hi/dates/stories/march/4/newsid_4206000/4206569.stm   (555 words)

  
 icScotland - Papal honour for Anne Maguire
Mrs Maguire, 68, of Willesden, north-west London, was imprisoned in 1976 with five members of her family and a family friend, including her husband Patrick, her son Vincent, 17, and her 14-year-old son also called Patrick following the 1974 IRA bomb attacks in Guildford and Woolwich.
In 1991 the Court of Appeal overturned the convictions of the Maguires and last February, Tony Blair issued a public apology for the miscarriages of justice.
Mrs Maguire, who is a mother of four, grandmother of seven and great-grandmother of four, will be presented with the medal by Cardinal Murphy-O'Connor during a Sunday morning Mass at the Sacred Heart of Jesus parish, north London.
icscotland.icnetwork.co.uk /news/scottish/tm_objectid=15544575&method=full&siteid=50141&headline=papal-honour-for-anne-maguire-name_page.html   (387 words)

  
 In the Name of the Father
Patrick Maguire, who also spent fifteen years in an English gaol through a related case, has also contested some aspects of the narrative.
Gerard Conlon himself was never looked upon too favourably by the Maguire Seven who were convicted in part because he implicated them out of spite in his false confessions.
One of the Seven, Annie Maguire's brother Sean Smyth, told the Irish News in July 1991 that he was very bitter about Conlon.
www.ulsternation.org.uk /in_the_name_of_the_father.htm   (388 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | UK | England | London | Pope honours Maguire Seven gran
Mrs Maguire was jailed in 1976 - two years after the Guildford and Woolwich bombs - with five members of her family and a family friend, including her husband Patrick, and two sons Vincent and Patrick.
Later Gerry Conlon's father, Guiseppe, and members of the Maguire family - the Maguire Seven - were arrested and jailed.
Mrs Maguire was sentenced to 14 years but in 1991 the Court of Appeal overturned their convictions and last February Prime Minister Tony Blair issued a public apology to the Maguires for the miscarriage of justice.
news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/uk_news/england/london/4569533.stm   (395 words)

  
 C4 News - UK - UK - Blair apology   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
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.
The families had campaigned tirelessly for public acknowledgement of the miscarriage of justice after the convictions were overturned amid allegations of falsified evidence and confessions obtained under coercion.
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.
www.channel4.com /news/2005/02/week_2/09_conlon.html   (550 words)

  
 Scotsman.com News - Catholic church - Pope's medal for wrongly jailed woman
The Archbishop of Westminster, Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O'Connor, said Maguire had been awarded the medal, which translates to "well deserved", in recognition of her "remarkable ability to forgive", as well as her work for her parish, family and community.
Maguire, 68, of Willesden, northwest London, was imprisoned in 1976 with five members of her family and a family friend, including her husband Patrick, her son Vincent, 17, and her 14-year-old son also called Patrick, following the 1974 IRA bomb attacks in Guildford and Woolwich.
Last February, Tony Blair issued a public apology to the Maguire Seven and the Guildford Four for the miscarriages of justice.
news.scotsman.com /topics.cfm?tid=174&id=560162005   (384 words)

  
 A guide to picking the winner - smh.com.au
Ideally this year's Melbourne Cup winner will have a single-word name with seven characters, have 'T" as a first initial, be handicapped with 52.5kg, carry number four saddlecloth, be drawn in barrier 11, have raced last Saturday and have Bart Cummings as the trainer.
A five-year-old is overdue, the last being Doriemus seven years ago, so it may to follow the international gallopers Vinnie Roe, Pugin, Beekeeper, and Media Puzzle, as well as Rain Gauge, Hail, Prized Gem and Thong Classic.
And the situation is not much better for visiting stayers Vinnie Roe (barrier seven) and Pugin (barrier 15) given that Backwood (1924) is the only horse to win from gate seven and Silver Knight (1971) the only winner from 15.
www.smh.com.au /articles/2002/11/03/1036308206063.html   (1311 words)

  
 AM - Blair issues public apology to Guilford four and Maguire Seven
Those known as the Guildford Four and the Maguire Seven spent up to 15 years in prison after being wrongfully convicted of carrying out IRA attacks in English pubs.
KIRSTEN AIKEN: The Conlon and Maguire families were blamed for renewing IRA attacks on mainland Britain in 1974, specifically the bombing of bars in the southern towns of Guildford and Woolwich in which seven people were killed.
The Guildford Four had their convictions quashed in 1989; the Maguire Seven's convictions were overturned two years later.
www.abc.net.au /am/content/2005/s1299847.htm   (556 words)

  
 Guardian Unlimited | The Guardian | After 16 years of waiting, an apology at last for the Guildford Four
The public apology to both the Guildford Four and the Maguire Seven, who were wrongly imprisoned over the Guildford attack and other 1974 bombings in Woolwich, south-east London, followed pressure from the Irish prime minister, Bertie Ahern, in a meeting last week and a petition of 10,000 signatures.
Annie Maguire, Gerry Conlon's aunt, a cleaner living in north London, was imprisoned along with her husband, Paddy, their two sons Vincent, 17, and Patrick, 13, her brother, Sean Smyth and a family friend, Patrick O'Neill.
Paddy Maguire, her husband, was a gas fitter from west Belfast who had served in the British army for three years in the 50s.
www.guardian.co.uk /uk_news/story/0,,1409549,00.html   (1352 words)

  
 [PRISONACT] Blair apologizes to 11 imprisoned for '74 IRA blast
Eleven members of the Conlon and Maguire families spent up to 15 years in prison for bombings they didn't commit — a story dramatized in the 1993 Oscar-nominated film, In the Name of the Father.
The so-called Guildford Four and Maguire Seven had their convictions quashed more than a decade ago, after indications that British police had fabricated evidence and used coercion to extract confessions.
Anne and Patrick Maguire each served 14 years for the crime they didn't commit, while their 17 and 14 year-old sons spent five and four years behind bars, respectively.
www.prisonactivist.org /pipermail/prisonact-list/2005-February/009699.html   (789 words)

  
 injusticebusters 2005 > > Britain apologizes to wrongfully convicted: no police apology
Members of the Conlon and Maguire families were jailed in connection with Irish Republican Army bombings in Guildford and Woolwich in England in 1974.
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.
Mr Conlon's father and members of Mrs Annie Maguire's family were also later arrested and jailed for the attack and other bombings in Woolwich, south east London, after they were allegedly identified as being involved in the bomb plot in confessions extracted by the police.
www.injusticebusters.com /05/Conlon_Gerry.shtml   (3837 words)

  
 icScotland - Papal honour for Anne Maguire
The late pope issued the Bene Merenti medal to Anne Maguire, one of the Maguire Seven, three days before he died.
The Maguires were convicted of possessing nitro-glycerine, which was allegedly passed to the IRA to make bombs.
Mrs Maguire was sentenced to 14 years in prison.
icscotland.icnetwork.co.uk /news/uk/tm_objectid=15544575&method=full&siteid=50141&headline=papal-honour-for-anne-maguire-name_page.html   (387 words)

  
 105th salutes departing commander
Thomas P. Maguire yesterday, who is leaving his post as commander of the Air National Guard's 105th Airlift Wing.
Yesterday, though, Maguire reminisced more about the contributions of his unit to the local community, such as participating in blood and bone marrow drives.
Maguire was showered with gifts: everything from a motorcycle helmet to a model of the C-5A Galaxy — the 105th's signature transport plane.
www.recordonline.com /archive/2001/08/20/trang.htm   (359 words)

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