(from left to right) Don Wycherley, Mary-Elaine Tynan and Paddy Armstrong outside The Viking Theatre Clontarf where the play premièred in November 2024.
PADDY ARMSTRONG
Paddy Armstrong is a native of Belfast, Northern Ireland. In 1975 he was falsely convicted of helping carry out the Guildford and Woolwich bombings, a conviction for which he spent 15 years in prison. Today, he lives in Clontarf, Dublin, with his wife and children.
PADDY – THE LIFE AND TIMES OF PADDY ARMSTRONG
This one-man play, which premiered in November 2024, was inspired by Paddy Armstrong’s memoir Life After Life, a Guildford Four Memoir and stars Don Wycherley in the title role.
Fifty years after his wrongful conviction, at the age of 74, Paddy Armstrong is facing into his twilight years and wrestling with a thousand, turbulent memories. In Paddy he relives the journey that forever altered his destiny.
Don Wycherley brings unflinching honesty, pathos and humour to his portrayal of Paddy, a man failed and scarred by a flawed system yet refusing to be defined by it.
Paddy is a testament to the resilience of the human spirit and the power of forgiveness, reminding us that the privilege of freedom and love, family and everyday life can restore us and mend the scars of even the most savage injustice.
BUY LIFE AFTER LIFE- A GUILDFORD FOUR MEMOIR BY PADDY ARMSTRONG WITH MARY-ELAINE TYNAN
RTÉ RADIO DOCUMENTARY ON ONE
In this radio documentary produced by Mary-Elaine Tynan and Nicoline Greer, for RTÉ Documentary on One, we meet Paddy Armstrong twenty-five years after he was released from prison. In the documentary, Paddy and his wife return to London where he became part of one of the most notorious miscarriages of justice when he was wrongfully convicted for pub bombings in Guildford and Woolwich in 1975. The documentary follows Paddy as he revisits his old haunts in Kilburn and goes back to Guildford to meet his solicitor and friend Alastair Logan, as they visit the site of the Guildford.
(RTÉ Radio 1, Documentary on One, 2014)
