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MICHAEL COLLINS – Elliot Goldenthal
THROWBACK THIRTY
Original Review by Jonathan Broxton
Michael Collins is director Neil Jordan’s sweeping historical drama about one of the most important and controversial figures in the Irish struggle for independence. Liam Neeson plays Collins, who emerged from the failed Easter Rising of 1916 to become one of the principal architects of the Irish revolutionary movement, eventually serving as Minister for Finance in the underground Dáil government and as Director of Intelligence for what would eventually become the Irish Republican Army. Collins was a key strategist in the guerrilla campaign against British rule, but he later became one of the principal negotiators of the 1921 Anglo-Irish Treaty, which established the Irish Free State while leaving Northern Ireland within the United Kingdom. The treaty split the republican movement, led directly to the Irish Civil War, and ultimately placed Collins in opposition to many of his former comrades; he was eventually killed in an ambush in County Cork in August 1922. Read more…
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