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Jan 31, 2019 · Getty Images. Five people died in the blast at the Horse & Groom on 5 October 1974. The bomb attacks took place on 5 October 1974, in two pubs popular with British army personnel in Guildford ...
The Guildford Four and Maguire Seven were two groups of people, mostly Irish, who were wrongly convicted in English courts in 1975 and 1976 for the Guildford pub bombings of 5 October 1974, [1] and the Woolwich pub bombing of 7 November 1974. All the convictions were eventually quashed after long campaigns for justice, and the cases, along with ...
Jun 21, 2014 · LONDON – Gerry Conlon, the Irishman wrongly convicted of an IRA bomb attack in the U.K. in 1974 whose story was made famous by Jim Sheridan ’s Oscar-nominated 1993 drama In the Name of the ...
Aug 14, 2023 · After Gerry Conlon’s IRA bombing conviction was overturned by the court of appeal in London, in 1989, he was encouraged to return to his cell while a taxi was arranged. He wasn’t having it, he ...
Oct 5, 2017 · Henry McDonald. Johnny Depp has described his close friendship with Gerry Conlon, saying he would have “taken a bullet” for him, in a moving foreword to a new biography of the man who spent 15 ...
Feb 9, 2010 · On October 19, 1989, the Guildford Four, convicted of the 1975 IRA bombings of public houses in Guildford and Woolwich, England, are cleared of all charges and released from prison after nearly 15 ...
Oct 14, 2017 · Some of Gerry Conlon's story has been told in tabloid newspapers as well in the film In the Name of the Father (1993, director Jim Sheridan), which dramatised his relationship with his father ...
