Moving memoir of one of the 'Maguire Seven', wrongly
imprisoned as a teeneger for making bombs for the IRA. Patrick was
just 14-years old when he was arrested and sentenced on false
testimony, and when he was released aged 18, he had no one as his
family were still inside. Arrested in 1974, it was not until 1989
that the convictions were quashed.
'The intensely moving memoir of Patrick Maguire, one of the
'Maguire Seven', wrongly imprisoned as a teenager for
making bombs for the IRA. On the night of October 5 1974, an IRA
unit left bombs in two Guildford pubs: five people were killed. On
the night of December 3 1974, on the strength of fabricated
testimony extracted under duress from Paul Hill and Gerard Conlon
(whom the police mistakenly believed had planted the Guildford
bombs), Anne and Paddy Maguire, two of their four children, Vincent
and Patrick, plus other family members and friends, a total of
seven in all, were arrested at their home in West London. On 22
October 1975, the Guildford Four were wrongfully convicted of
bombing the two pubs in Guildford. On 4 March 1976, the Maguire
Seven, as they had become known, were found guilty of possession of
the nitro-glycerine used in those bombings. On 19 October 1989, the
verdicts on the Guildford Four were quashed. On 26 June 1991, the
convictions against the Maguire Seven of handling explosives were
quashed and just over a year later, Sir John May, after producing a
report on the Maguire Seven case, described it as the worst
miscarriage of justice he had ever seen.Behind these dates lie
human stories -- 'My Father's Watch' tells that of
Patrick, who was the youngest of the accused, at fourteen years
old. He was sentenced to four years and when he came out he had no
home and no family, as both of his parents were still in jail. This
book takes us through Patrick's entire life, from his
working-class childhood in West London to the difficult life he has
led since prison, the roots of which go back to the wrongful
convictions and the destruction of the family that followed.
Patrick Maguire and the novelist Carlo Gebler have written 'My
Father's Watch' jointly
'It goes deep into the mind of the abused boy who has become a troubled man.' Mail on Sunday 'Patrick Maguire!tells the sometimes unbearably poignant story of his childhood, sudden arrest, three years of prison and what came next.' Daily Mail 'Its power derives from Patrick himself!a damaged survivor with the burdens of a past he cannot shrug off. A devastating chronicle of injustice and blighted lives. It is moving and sad, and told without bitterness. It's not a happy story, but it is a necessary one.' Ronan Bennett, Guardian 'Painfully honest and utterly compelling.' Irish Mail on Sunday
Patrick Maguire is the youngest member of the Maguire family or the Maguire Seven, who became notorious for being accessories after the IRA Guildford bombing. Patrick was only fourteen when he and his family were arrested. It became clear that they had been wrongly accused and their convictions were soon quashed. Patrick's first book "My Father's Watch" is a memoir which records a series of traumatic events and comments on the injustices of the legal system.
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