Gerry Conlon is shown in Belfast stripping lead from roofs of houses when security forces home in on the district with armoured cars , and a riot breaks out . Gerry 's father , Giuseppe Conlon , later saves him from IRA punishment , and he is sent off to London to stay with his aunt , Anne Maguire , for his own good . Instead , he finds a squat , to explore , as he puts it , " free love and dope " . In October 1974 , Gerry happens to gain entry to a prostitute 's flat and he steals the £ 700 he finds there and chats briefly with a man sitting in a park . On that evening in Guildford , southwest of London , there is an explosion at a pub that kills four off-duty soldiers and a civilian , and wounds sixty-five others
explosion at a pub
Guildford pub bombings
In the Name of the Father (film)