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...Soviet Union. She went on to join the fabled freedom riders in the early 1960s, registering blacks to vote and recording her feelings of terror and triumph in the 1965 book Freedom Summer. Her other works include Living with War, based on a year in the urban battleground of Belfast in Northern Ireland, and an autobiography to be published later this year...
...with his saintly dad (Oscar nominee Pete Postlethwaite) for an I.R.A. bombing, in Jim Sheridan's In the Name of the Father. They are an amazing pair, Newland and Gerry, two men in their own prisons -- one surrendering his passion to Old New York civility, the other maturing from Belfast bad boy to crusading...
Accompanied by a bevy of Kennedys, Paul Hill appeared in a court in Belfast, Northern Ireland, to appeal his 1975 life sentence for the murder of a former British soldier. (Hill has been freed pending the legal outcome.) One of the so-called Guildford Four, Hill served 15 years in prison after being wrongly convicted of an I.R.A. pub bombing -- a story told in the film In the Name of the Father. He is married to Courtney Kennedy, Robert's daughter...
...Marley, and "Whiskey In A Jar" by Thin Lizzy. These songs are just fantastic, though you probably don't need this disc to listen to them, and it doesn't particularly add to their brilliance to hear them together. They were great in the movie itself: a riot in Belfast set to "Voodoo Child" was amazing, and Daniel Day Lewis' visit to a bunch of dosed prison inmates listening to Marley was pretty cool...
London in 1974 is a war zone as well. A series of bombing attacks by the IRA has the city living in fear. Yet it is better for Gerry Conlon to live here than Belfast, or "this God-forsaken place," as both his father and aunt put it. Gerry has been sent to London to clean up, but instead he and a friend discover commune life, drugs, and petty theivery. He is a ragged, vain, young man, who uses the word "fuck" indiscriminately and consistently...