Bono [U2] with Gavin Friday - 2025 New 7-minute version 'In The Name of The Father'.

Song 'In the Name of the Father' Performed by Bono and Gavin Friday Written by Bono / Gavin Friday . The film In the Name of the Father is a 1993 biographical crime drama film co-written and directed by Jim Sheridan, starring Daniel Day-Lewis, Emma Thompson and Pete Postlethwaite . It is based on the true story of the Guildford Four, four people falsely convicted of the 1974 Guildford pub bombings that killed four off-duty British soldiers and a civilian. The screenplay was adapted by Terry George and Jim Sheridan from the 1990 autobiography Proved Innocent: The Story of Gerry Conlon of the Guildford Four by Gerry Conlon.