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The Guilford Four

Campaign for Justice 50 Years On

By Brian Dooley
IA Newsletter, October 5, 2024

October 4, 2024 by Leave a Comment

Gerry Conlon outside the Old Bailey, London, after his conviction was quashed in 1989. Photo: Photopress Belfast

Guildford Pub Bombs Continue to Haunt Victims and the British Criminal Justice System 50 years later.  Exactly 50 years ago, on Saturday night October 5, 1974, IRA bombs exploded in two pubs in the Surrey town of Guildford, south of London.  But despite a series of trials, appeals, an official inquiry and a coroners inquest, the full story of the attacks is still not … [Read more...] about Campaign for Justice 50 Years On

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Jeremiah O’Donovan Rossa, a prominent Fenian leader and member of the Irish Republican Brotherhood, passed away in New York on June 29, 1915. Born in Co. Cork, Rossa was arrested and in 1865. He was charged with planning a Fenian Rising. He served out his sentence in England and after realizing he could not return to Ireland in exile, Rossa moved to the U.S. where he joined Clan Na Gael and the Fenian Brotherhood. A memorial to Rossa Stands in St. Stephen’s Green.

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