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Dear Sarah is a film of genre Drama with Bronagh Gallagher
Dear Sarah (1990)
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Add to a movie listDear Sarah is a 1990 made-for-television film about Giuseppe Conlon who was sentenced to twelve years imprisonment after being implicated as one of the Maguire Seven during the 1970s. The film was produced by Raidió Teilifís Éireann, directed by Frank Cvitanovich and written by Tom McGurk. It starred Stella McCusker, Barry McGovern and Paddy Rocks, and was aired in 1990 by RTÉ in Ireland and on the ITV Network in the United Kingdom.
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The film is based on the letters Giuseppe Conlon wrote from prison to his wife Sarah after he was convicted in 1976 along with six 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.Actors
Bronagh Gallagher
(Anne Conlon)
Eileen Pollock
(Mary Kelly)
P. H. Moriarty
(Warder Deans)
Simon Chandler
(Alastair Logan)
Ricky Tomlinson
(Warder #1)
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