Daniel Day-Lewis played the Irishman, wrongly convicted of an IRA bomb attack in the U.K. in 1974, in the 1993 drama from Jim Sheridan. By Alex Ritman U.K. Correspondent Daniel Day-Lewis starred with ...

DUBLIN — Gerry Conlon, who was imprisoned unjustly for an Irish Republican Army bombing and inspired an Oscar-nominated film, has died at age 60 following a long battle with cancer. His family said in ...

GUARANTEED TO GET YOUR BLOOD boiling, In the Name of the Father relates the true story of Gerry Conlon (Daniel Day-Lewis), one of the "Guildford Four" wrongly convicted of planting IRA bombs in two ...

(CNN, June 22, 2014) — Gerry Conlon, who was wrongly imprisoned for the IRA Guildford pub bombing in England in 1974, died Saturday in Belfast, Northern Ireland. He was 60. He was one of the Guildford ...

Johnny Depp has opened up about his close relationship to Gerry Conlon in a foreword for the book “In the Name of the Son: The Gerry Conlon Story,” out Oct. 18 by Richard O’Rawe. Conlon was known as ...

Gerry Conlon’s family have paid tribute to the Guildford Four miscarriage of justice victim who ‘helped us to survive what we were not meant to survive.’ The 60-year-old, jailed by the British for an ...

Gerry Conlon, victim of the Guildford Four miscarriage of justice, has died in Belfast. The 60-year-old spent 15 years in jail for a crime he did not commit. His story inspired the movie In The Name ...

“When Gerry Conlon, who has died aged 60 of lung cancer, met survivors of the US's Guantánamo Bay detention camp, he found that their 21st-century experiences mirrored his in the 1970s,” The Guardian ...

Gerry Conlon, whose wrongful conviction for the 1970s bombing of a British pub committed by the Irish Republican Army raised criticism of anti-terrorism laws and inspired an award-winning film, died ...

He insists he was drawn to Gerry Conlon's story not by the tough political terrain, but by the example of Giuseppe Conlon, who tried to save his son from prison and was arrested himself. Says Sheridan ...

Gerry Conlon, the subject of 1993 film In The Name Of The Father, has died. He was 60. The Irishman, who was wrongly convicted of an IRA bomb attack in the UK in 1974, passed away at his home in ...