Question: Which film, directed by Jim Sheridan, centers on the life of a boxer and former Provisional IRA volunteer Danny Flynn, played by Daniel Day-Lewis, who is trying to "go straight" after his release from prison?
Context: Nessan Quinlivan (born 1965), is a former Provisional IRA member who escaped from Brixton Prison in London on 7 July 1991 along with his cellmate Pearse McAuley, while awaiting trial on charges relating to a suspected IRA plot to assassinate a former brewery company chairman, Sir Charles Tidbury. The Boxer is a 1997 sports-drama film by Irish director Jim Sheridan.  Starring Daniel Day-Lewis and Emily Watson, the film centers on the life of a boxer and former Provisional IRA volunteer Danny Flynn, played by Day-Lewis, who is trying to "go straight" after his release from prison.  The film is the third collaboration between Sheridan and Day-Lewis, and portrays the increase of splinter groups within the IRA. Gerard Patrick Martin McCaughey (24 February 1967 – 9 October 1990) was a volunteer in the East Tyrone Brigade of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) from Aughnagar, Galbally, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland.  McCaughey was killed by undercover British Army soldiers in County Armagh on October 1990 along with fellow IRA volunteer, Dessie Grew. On the evening of 26 March 1997, the Provisional IRA East Tyrone Brigade launched an improvised grenade attack on the fortified Royal Ulster Constabulary/British Army base in Coalisland, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland.  The blast sparked an immediate reaction by an undercover Special Air Service unit, who shot and wounded Gareth Doris, an Irish republican and alleged IRA volunteer.  The SAS unit was then surrounded by a crowd of protesters who prevented them approaching Doris or leaving.  RUC officers arrived and fired plastic bullets at the crowd, allowing the special forces to leave the area. Some Mother's Son is a 1996 film written and directed by Irish filmmaker Terry George, co-written by Jim Sheridan, and based on the true story of the 1981 hunger strike in the Maze Prison, in Northern Ireland.  Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) prisoner Bobby Sands (played by John Lynch) led a protest against the treatment of IRA prisoners, claiming that they should be treated as prisoners of war rather than criminals.  The mothers of two of the strikers, played by Helen Mirren and Fionnula Flanagan, fight to save their sons' lives.  When the prisoners go on hunger strike and become incapacitated, the mothers must decide whether to abide by their sons' wishes, or to go against them and have them forcibly fed. In the Name of the Father is a 1993 Irish-British-American biographical courtroom drama film co-written and directed by Jim Sheridan.  It is based on the true life story of the Guildford Four, four people falsely convicted of the 1974 IRA's Guildford pub bombings, which killed four off-duty British soldiers and a civilian.  The screenplay was adapted by Terry George and Jim Sheridan from the autobiography "Proved Innocent: The Story of Gerry Conlon of the Guildford Four" by Gerry Conlon. Pearse McAuley (born c. 1965 in Strabane) is a former Provisional IRA member, who escaped from Brixton Prison in London on 7 July 1991 along with his cellmate Nessan Quinlivan, while awaiting trial on charges relating to a suspected plot to assassinate former brewery company chairman, Sir Charles Tidbury. My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown is a 1989 Irish biographical drama film co-written and directed by Jim Sheridan and starring Daniel Day-Lewis, Brenda Fricker, Ray McAnally and Fiona Shaw.  It tells the story of Christy Brown, an Irishman born with cerebral palsy, who could control only his left foot.  Christy Brown grew up in a poor, working-class family, and became a writer and artist.  The film also stars Julie Hale, Alison Whelan, Kirsten Sheridan, Declan Croghan, Eanna MacLiam, Marie Conmee, and Cyril Cusack.  It is a partly fictional biography, adapted by Shane Connaughton and Jim Sheridan from the book "My Left Foot" by Christy Brown. Fergal Caraher (12 April 1970 – 30 December 1990) was a Provisional IRA volunteer and Sinn Féin member who was killed by British military forces during an ambush in Cullyhanna, County Armagh, Northern Ireland. Jim Sheridan (born 6 February 1949) is an Irish playwright, screenwriter, film director, and film producer.  In the few years from 1989 to 1993, Sheridan made three acclaimed films set in Ireland ("My Left Foot", "The Field", and "In the Name of the Father") that between them received 13 Academy Award nominations.  Sheridan has personally received six Academy Award nominations.  In addition to the above-mentioned films, he is also known for the films "The Boxer" and "In America".
Answer: The Boxer