Dear Sarah (film)

The film is based on the letters Giuseppe Conlon wrote from prison to his wife Sarah after he was wrongfully convicted in 1976 along with seven members of the Maguire family of running an IRA bomb factory in North London. Conlon received twelve years imprisonment but died in custody in 1980.

Sarah Conlon spent many years campaigning to clear the names of her husband, and son Gerry (who had been wrongly jailed over the 1974 Guildford pub bombings). The others jailed along with Giuseppe Conlon were later released after serving their sentences, and the convictions were quashed on appeal in 1991. The Guildford Four had their convictions overturned in 1989.

• Stella McCusker – Sarah Conlon
• Barry McGovern – Giuseppe Conlon
• Paddy Rocks – Gerry Conlon
• Bronagh Gallagher – Anne Conlon
• Janice McAdam – Bridgid Conlon
• Elsa Johns – Young Sarah
• Eileen Pollock – Mary Kelly
• P.H. Moriarty – Warder Deans

Stella McCusker won a Jacob's Award for her performance as Sarah Conlon.^[1]

• In the Name of the Father, a 1993 film which also relates events surrounding the Guildford Four case.

• Dear Sarah at IMDb
• Dear Sarah at the British Film Institute^{[better source needed]}