Veronica Guerin - in Popular Culture

In Popular Culture

  • Two films have been based on her story: When the Sky Falls, (2000), starring Joan Allen as Sinead Hamilton and Veronica Guerin (2003), starring Cate Blanchett.
  • Eleanor McEvoy features the song, "Easy To Lose Hope", which she wrote shortly after Guerin's murder, on her 1999 album Snapshots.
  • Heavy metal band Savatage has a song about Guerin on their 1998 album The Wake of Magellan.
  • Christy Moore has written and recorded a song called "Veronica" which appears on his Live in Dublin (2006) CD. (This does not appear on the DVD of the same concert.)
  • A road in Collingwood Park, Western Australia is named after her.
  • Paul Bowen, Irish singer songwriter, composed and recorded a tribute song, "Veronica 1337".
  • A biography titled Veronica Guerin: The Life and Death of a Crime Reporter by Emily O'Reilly, published in 1998, questioned the ethics of Guerin's methods of gathering information, and those of the underlying media establishment.

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