The bard celebrates two other fine practitioners of the art, and laments a lost brewer
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Gerry Conlon’s life a chapter in the unfinished history between Britain and Ireland
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CHRIS SEARLE recommends a work of love and deep admiration for a great musician
In the Name of the Son: The Gerry Conlon Story
by Richard O’Rawe
(Merrion Press, £15.99)
ALONG with Paul Hill, Paddy Armstrong and Carole Richardson, Gerry Conlon was one of the so-called Guildford Four. In 1975, these young people were arrested and convicted of carrying out the IRA pub bombings in Guildford and Woolwich, in which seven died and 65 were injured.
All the confessions were extracted by the police under conditions that can only be described as torture. They were unlucky to be Irish in the wrong place at the wrong time.
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