Gerry Conlon

In the Name of the Son. A book review of the new Gerry Conlon biography by Richard O’Rawe…

Dave Thompson on October 22, 2017, 8:39 am

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Gerry Conlon, arguably the most well-known of the Guildford Four, published his autobiography ‘Proved Innocent’ in 1990. It made an enormous impression on me in my early twenties, so it didn’t take much to get me to Merrion Press’s launch of Richard O’Rawe’s ‘In the Name of the Son’ in Belfast at the start of October. The forward by Johnny Depp might raise a few eyebrows, and does indicate the kind of circles Conlon moved in after his release from …

Michael Mansfield QC gives the first Gerry Conlon Memorial Lecture

Soapbox on January 26, 2015, 6:12 pm

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‘You’re doing this for future generations. The next generation of politicians know this – you’re setting a democratic precedent with these inquiries. And if they won’t do it, set up people’s tribunals.’ So advised Michael Mansfield QC, the radical lawyer and defence counsel for the Birmingham Six, to a packed auditorium at St. Mary’s College on the lower Falls Road in Belfast, metres from where Gerry Conlon had grown up. The lecture, titled ‘Democratic Bankruptcy’ had been organised as the …

Michael Mansfield QC to deliver the first Gerry Conlon Memorial lecture this Friday on the theme of “Democratic Bankruptcy”

Brian O'Neill on January 20, 2015, 3:48 pm

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An annual memorial lecture has been established by SDLP West Belfast to mark the memory of Gerry Conlon who died last year. The first lecture is this Friday 23rd January 2015 at 7pm in St. Mary’s University, Falls Road, Belfast. The “Democratic Bankruptcy” lecture will be delivered by Michael Mansfield QC, who worked on the Guilford case and is currently working on the Hillsborough inquests. There will be a panel afterwards with Patrick Corrigan from Amnesty International and Paddy Hill, …

Gerry Conlon dies…

Mick Fealty on June 21, 2014, 2:00 pm

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“To no one will we sell, to no one will we refuse or delay, right or justice.” – Magna Carta 1215, clause 40 Sorry to hear of the passing of Gerry Conlon, one of the Guildford Four who were wrongly arrested and convicted of the IRA’s bombing of two 6-pound gelignite bombs at two pubs in Guildford in Surrey. The underlying tragedy (aside from five people killed in the first of what were for the time tiny bombs) of Conlons …