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"However, the film is not a true story as widely believed, merely based in part on actual events." The film is autobiographical; not all events depicted really happened, but the underlying story (pub bombings, Guildford 4 trial, imprisonment, release after appeal) is all true. Removed. --duncan 11:25, 11 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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BetacommandBot (talk) 23:41, 13 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Dubliners[edit]

To me the London setting reminds me of some corners in Dublin. Which scences are filmed in London?

For example the whore#s robbery is in ------ street and the hippies house either. Do you think it#s a good idea to change places for tension on this page? Foreshadowing means something else!--Danaide (talk) 08:33, 12 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Gareth[edit]

Gareth Peirce is a solicitor as is apparent from the wiki entry for that person.

It is also reasonably apparent from the film that she is a solicitor and indeed from the plot summary in this article: she does factual research of a kind not ordinarily carried out by barristers.

She also does some advocacy in the Court of Appeal in the film; I don't know whether she in fact did in real life. The wiki article on Ms Peirce states that it is a composite character.

From memory Emma Thompson has a wig in her car (thus indicating that she is indeed a barrister) - but doesn't wear it in Court! I like to think that there was then a big argument between (1) props, (2) wardrobe, (3) continuity, (4) Emma's agent (who presumably thought that the wig was either unattractive and/or annonymised the wearer, their client) and/or (5) legal advisers to the film at the preview, but I can find no third party source to confirm this.

86.166.129.141 (talk) 17:09, 25 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]