Michael Collins (film)
Michael Collins is a 1996 historical biopic written and directed by Neil Jordan and starring Liam Neeson as Michael Collins, the Irish patriot and revolutionary who died in the Irish Civil War. It won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival.
The film flashes back to the end of the Easter Rising in 1916, as Collins Liam Neeson, Harry Boland Aidan Quinn, amon de Valera Alan Rickman, and other survivors surrender to the British Army. As the Dublin Metropolitan Polices G Division identifies the leaders, Collins tells Boland that next time, We wont play by their rules, Harry. Well invent our own. All the other leaders die by firing squad, but de Valera, an American citizen, is imprisoned in England. Collins, Boland, and the others are sent to Frongoch internment camp.After his release, Collins gives a speech at an election rally at the South Longford byelection, 1917. The rally is attacked by the Royal Irish Constabulary. Collins is severely beaten, but is rescued by Boland. While recovering on a friends farm, they meet Kitty, who begins a romance with Boland. ........
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