Johnny Depp writes to ‘long-lost brother’ Gerry Conlon

Hollywood actor Johnny Depp has written the foreword to a new book about his “long-lost brother” Gerry Conlon, who spent 15 years in prison after he was wrongly convicted of being involved in an IRA bombing.

“It was his eyes that got me. Eyes that simultaneously exuded wisdom and a childlike purity; a desire to live and love. There was no question that these powerful eyes had seen and experienced much. This was Gerry Conlon,” the actor wrote about the pair’s first meeting.

In the Name of the Son: The Gerry Conlon Story is a new book by Richard O’Rawe, a former Irish republican prisoner and a leading figure in the 1981 Hunger Strike in the H Blocks of the Maze prison.