ANNE and her son PATRICK MAGUIRE were part of the Maguire Seven, the family who was wrongfully arrested in 1974 on suspicion of manufacturing bombs for the Irish Republican Army. The family was tortured, tried, convicted, and jailed, and was not reunited for eleven years. ANNE spent eight years in prison, in what Sir John May called the "worst miscarriage of justice I have ever seen." PATRICK spent four years in prison after being convicted at the age of 13. ANNE MAGUIRE has written a book about their experience, "Miscarriage of Justice: An Irish Family's Story of Wrongful Conviction as IRA Terrorists" (Roberts Rinehart Publishers).

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