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An Irish Family’s Story of Wrongful Conviction as IRA Terrorists" by Cardinal Basil Hume |
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| Recently I listened to Anne Maguire speaking
to close on two hundred young people. As she told her story they listened
to her quite spellbound. It was not so much her story, immensly disquieting
as this is, but the quality of the lady who was speaking which impressed
them. It was her dignity, her evident goodness and the total lack of bitterness
which spoke more eloquently than her words. Anne Maguire has now put her
story into print and I believe that the reading of this book will make
a profound impression on readers as it did on the young people as they
listened to her speaking.
Anne Maguire was caught up in a terrible situation not of her making, accused unjustly of a crime she never committed. To have met her and to have sat with her in conversation adds to the total improbability of her or any of her family being involved in the terrible crimes of which she was accused. Anne Maguire never lost her faith in God and in humanity. Perhaps it took this ordeal to bring the best out of her, and she is, as far as I am concerned, a very exceptional woman whom it has been a privilege to get to know. Basil Hume
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