Daniel Berrigan - Popular Culture

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  • Dar Williams's song "I Had No Right" from her album The Green World is about Berrigan and his trial.
  • Paul Simon's song "Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard" refers to Berrigan as "the radical priest".
  • Lynne Sachs's documentary film Investigation of a Flame is about the Berrigan brothers and the Catonsville Nine.
  • Daniel Berrigan was interviewed about his life and activism for Kisseloff, Jeff (2006). Generation on Fire: Voices of Protest from the 1960s, an Oral History. University Press of Kentucky. ISBN 0-8131-2416-6..
  • Daniel Berrigan appeared briefly in the 1986 Roland JoffĂ© film The Mission, which starred Robert De Niro and Jeremy Irons.
  • In 1994, Berrigan was one of several political activists featured on an advertisement for Ben & Jerry's ice cream. Proceeds from sales of a poster of the advertisement were donated to the Children's Defense Fund.
  • The character of Father Corrigan in the novel Let The Great World Spin (2009, by Colum McCann), was inspired by the life of Daniel Berrigan.

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