Caroline Williamson-Sinalo, the CGD Convenor, has extended special thanks to Mark McLoughlin for his exceptional work in capturing Mags's story with great sensitivity and compassion. O’Rawe details the healing work of Gerry’s psychotherapist Barry Walle in every bit as much detail as he does the litany of failures and corruption that sent Conlon down. This book is a tour de force … a chronicle of the triumph of the human spirit over extreme adversity. O Rawe is a former Irish republican prisoner and was a leading figure in the 1981 Hunger Strike in the H Blocks of the Maze prison. The waters are the clouds which cover the vault of heaven, and are held, as it were, in a garment, so that, in spite of the weight which they contain, they fall not upon the earth.

I've written this to those who believe in the Son of God so that they will know that they have eternal life.It is not in heaven, that thou shouldest say, Who shall go up for us to heaven, and bring it unto us, that we may hear it, and do it?

Written by someone who emerged from the same cauldron that swallowed so many of their generation, O Rawe s unsparingly honest account does many things, none more so than make us fervently wish that Gerry Conlon lived much longer, because he had so much more to teach us.I have written these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, so that you may know that you have eternal life and that you may believe in the name of the Son of God.

Written Gerry’s lifelong friend Richard O’Rawe and Martin Lynch the play explores triumph of the human spirit over extreme adversity.I would have settled for six months, enough time to say goodbye to everyone, but now it's kick the bucket time. A vivid, bracing, often funny account of the wild and tragic but ultimately inspiring life of Gerry Conlon. So, what was intended by Jesus, a Hebrew teacher, to be an outline of prayer has often been turned into a vain repetition (Matthew 6:7). From the Aboriginal people of Australia to Native Americans in the USA Gerry’s work eclipsed the wasted years in prison and the time he’d wasted as a free man imprisoned to hard drugs.