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Fair use. Photo by Hugh Russell. Conlon, Gerard (‘Gerry’) (1954–2014), victim of a miscarriage of justice and human rights campaigner, was born in Cyprus Street in the Lower Falls area of Belfast on 1 March 1954, the only surviving son of Guiseppe Conlon (qv), a labourer, and Sarah Conlon (qv) (née Maguire), a cleaner; he had two younger ...
Jun 21, 2014 · Gerry Conlon, Subject of Oscar-Nominated ‘In the Name of the Father,’ Dies at 60. Daniel Day-Lewis played the Irishman, wrongly convicted of an IRA bomb attack in the U.K. in 1974, in the 1993 ...
Aug 13, 2023 · Gerry Conlon News The Belfast man, who died of cancer age 60 in 2014, gives a harrowing account of being beaten and tortured in police custody, signing a confession after being told his mother ...
Jun 21, 2014 · Gerry Conlon, one of the Guildford Four, dies at age 60. Conlon was wrongly convicted in the 1974 IRA bombing of Guildford pub . He spent 15 years in prison and was released in 1989
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 ...
Jun 21, 2014 · Sat 21 Jun 2014 11.27 EDT. Gerry Conlon, one of four people wrongly convicted of carrying out the IRA bombing of a Guildford pub in 1974, has died. Conlon, 60, who passed away overnight in his ...
Jun 22, 2014 · Gerry Conlon, who was imprisoned unjustly for an Irish Republican Army bombing and inspired an Oscar-nominated film, has died at age 60 following a long battle with cancer.