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දිදුලන කඳුලැලි ත්‍රස්තවාදියකු යැයි නම්කර සිරගත කළ දරුවකුගේ් කතාව

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: Sinhala Language Publication details: Dehiwala Widarshana Prakashana 2010 2010Description: 376 p. 21 cmISBN:
  • 9789551559465
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 823 MAG
Summary: 5 October 1974: an IRA unit leaves bombs in two Guilldford pubs. Five people are killed. 4 March 1976: the Maguire Seven are wrongfully convicted of possession of the nitro-glycerine used in the bombings. 26 June 1991: the convictions against the Maguire Seven are quashed. Behind these dates lie the human stories. My Father's Watch tells that of Patrick Maguire, the youngest of the accused, who was thirteen years old at the time of his arrest and fourteen when he was sentenced to four years in an adult prison. This book takes us through his entire life, from his working-class childhood in West London to his difficulties since prison, the roots of which go back to the wrongfull convictions and destruction of his family that followed
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The intensely moving memoir of Patrick Maguire, one of the 'Maguire Seven' wrongly imprisoned as a teenager for making bombs for the IRA.

5 October 1974: an IRA unit leaves bombs in two Guilldford pubs. Five people are killed. 4 March 1976: the Maguire Seven are wrongfully convicted of possession of the nitro-glycerine used in the bombings. 26 June 1991: the convictions against the Maguire Seven are quashed. Behind these dates lie the human stories. My Father's Watch tells that of Patrick Maguire, the youngest of the accused, who was thirteen years old at the time of his arrest and fourteen when he was sentenced to four years in an adult prison. This book takes us through his entire life, from his working-class childhood in West London to his difficulties since prison, the roots of which go back to the wrongfull convictions and destruction of his family that followed

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