My Father's Watch
Subtitle: The Story of a Child Prisoner in 70's Britain
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Limited
Published: 2008
Language: eng
Number of pages: 432
ISBN-13: 9780007242139
Subjects: Great britain, biography
Description: 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.