Michael Collins

Michael Collins plays a crucial role in the establishment of the Irish Free State in the 1920s, but becomes vilified by those hoping to create a completely independent Irish republic.

Cast

Liam Neeson

Liam Neeson

as Michael Collins

Aidan Quinn

Aidan Quinn

as Harry Roland

Stephen Rea

Stephen Rea

as Ned Broy

Alan Rickman

Alan Rickman

as Eamon de Valera

Julia Roberts

Julia Roberts

as Kitty Kiernan

Ian Hart

Ian Hart

as Joe O'Reilly

Brendan Gleeson

Brendan Gleeson

as Liam Tobin

Stuart Graham

Stuart Graham

as Tom Cullen

Sean McGinley

Sean McGinley

as Smith

Gerard McSorley

Gerard McSorley

as Cathal Brugha

Reviews

SPDonlan

Like many such epics, _Michael Collins_ is melodramatic and partial, about a past all too present. But much of the critical hostility it received/s is for offending popular pieties, imperial or republican, no less prejudiced. Jordan wrestled with historiography and moral complexity in writing his...

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