ENGLAND - London CW's opens "Giueseppe Conlon House"
Frank Cordaro
From: Ciaron OReilly <cia...@yahoo.com>
Date: Tue, Nov 2, 2010
PHOTOS
London Catholic Worker
- Live In Community - Ciaron O'Reilly, Chuck, Soo Tian and Fr Martin Newell
- Giueseppe Conlon CW House
- and Church (not our cars! and hall at the back!)
The historic New River dating from 1613
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_River_%28England%29
runs by the other side of the church
WHERE WE'RE AT!
Giuseppe Conlon CW House
49 Mattison Rd.
Harringey
London N4 !BG
ENGLAND
Ph. 0208 348 8212
* 29 (bendy) bus from Trafalger Square
* closest tube Manor House
* overground station Green Lane
The London Catholic Worker has opened Giuseppe Conlon House - a new
hospitality house for destitute refugees - in Harringey, London. There
will an event to celebrate the opening of the new house in November
2010. Due to security concerns we will not be posting the specifics on
the internet. If you know any Catholic Worker supporters, (also
anti-war or refugee rights activists) in London or England who would
be interested in attending this afternoon of music, reflection and
partying forward this message and get them to make contact with:
Ciaron O'Reilly
cia...@yahoo.com
Mobile Phone: 079-392-90576
.....for specifics about the event!
The Catholic Worker in England presently comprises of "Dorothy Day
House" in Dalston/London, "St. Francis House" in Oxford, the Catholic
Worker Farmhouse in Rickmansworth
http://www.thecatholicworkerfarm.org/
and the new house we have opened in Harringey which we are to name
"Giuseppe Conlon House"
http://www.londoncatholicworker.org
The London Catholic Worker was born out of trial support for the
Jubilee Ploughshares 2000 witness, following the 2001 trial we became
a Catholic Worker reflection and anti-war activist (non live in)
community for a number of years before the houses were opened. The
London Catholic Worker also presently runs a house/home for destitute
in Dalston, a drop in cafe (Mon-Wed) in Dalston, a Sunday soup kitchen
for street homeless in Hackney's Roundchapel
http://www.theroundchapel.org.uk/ and keeps up a rhythm of nonviolent
anti-war resistance
It is a tradition within the international Catholic Worker movement
www.catholicworker.org to name our houses after people whose lives
have inspired us. Many house are named after saints, but also there
are houses named after our founder Dorothy Day, Mexican labour
organiser Cesar Chavez, the former slave Harriet Tubman, slain (in
East Timor) Australain journalist Greg Shakelton etc.
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WHY THE LONDON CATHOLIC WORKER IS NAMING ITS NEW HOUSE AFTER GIUSEPPE CONLON?
The London Catholic Worker would like to honour the memory of Giuseppe
Conlon by naming our new hospitality house in Harringey, London, after
him.
Giuseppe Conlon came to London from Belfast in 1974 as an act of
mercy. He came to visit, and organize legal representation for, his
son Gerry who had been arrested, tortured and framed
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guildford_Four_and_Maguire...Seven
Anne Maguire was Giuseppe's sister-in-law and the family offered
Giuseppe hospitality and a bed for his stay. On the night of his
arrival, the door to the Maguire home was smashed in by the police.
Anne Maguire, her husband Pat, their sons Vincent (17), Patrick (14),
the boys Uncle Sean Smythe, family friend Patrick O'Neill and Giuseppe
were in turn arrested tortured and framed.
Giusseppe was not to return home alive to Belfast. He was to die in
prison in England in 1980. The remaining "Maguire 7" would not be
together at liberty "on the outside" for another 11 years.
The "Guilford 4" convictions were reversed on appeal in 1989. The
Maguire 7 convictions were quashed in 1991. Garteh Peirce, lawyer in
the Guilford 4 case, has also represented Catholic Worker Fr. Martin
Newell in the Jubilee Ploughshares trial and a number of other
ploughshares groups at trial in England.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gareth_Peirce
The themes of hospitality, imprisonment, visiting the imprisoned,
miscarriages of justice and struggling to live a life of nonviolence
in a world of institutionalized violence are common in the life of
Giueseppe Conlon and in the experiences of both Catholic Workers and
guests at Giuseppe Conlon House in London. The life and struggles of
Giuseppe Colon are an inspiration to us all.
See.....
*2010 "Dispatches from the Darkside by Gareth Peirce
http://www.guardianbookshop.co.uk/BerteShopWeb/viewProd...76194
*2008 "My Father's Watch: The Story of a Child Prisoner in 70s Britain
by Patrick Maguire 2008
*1994 "Why Me? One Woman's Fight for Justice and Dignity" Anne Maguire 1994
*1993 Film "In the Name of the Father" 1993
*1990 "Proved Innocent" by Gerry Conlon 1990
*1988 "Streets of Sorrow" by the Pogues by Terry Woods Shane MacGowan
of thePogues (banned from broadcast)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streets_of_Sorrow/Birmingh...m_Six
