Gerry conlon autobiography meaning
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Gerry conlon autobiography meaning
Gerry Conlon
Irishman wrongly convicted of terrorism
Gerard Patrick Conlon (1 March 1954 – 21 June 2014) was a Northern Irish man known for being one of the Guildford Four who spent 15 years in prison after being wrongly convicted of being a Provisional IRA bomber.
Biography
Gerard Conlon was born in Belfast and grew up at 7 Peel Street on the corner of Mary Street in the impoverished but close-knit community of the Lower Falls Road.[3] He described his childhood as happy.
His father was Giuseppe Conlon, a factory worker, and his mother was Sarah Conlon, a hospital cleaner.[4]
In 1974, at age 20, Conlon went to England to seek work and to escape the everyday violence he was encountering on the streets of Belfast.
He was living with a group of squatters in London when he was arrested for the Guildford pub bombings, which occurred on 5 October the same year.[5]
Conlon, along with fellow Irishmen Paul Michael Hill and Paddy Armstrong and Engli