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.
Liam Neeson
as Michael Collins
Aidan Quinn
as Harry Roland
Stephen Rea
as Ned Broy
Alan Rickman
as Eamon de Valera
Julia Roberts
as Kitty Kiernan
Ian Hart
as Joe O'Reilly
Brendan Gleeson
as Liam Tobin
Stuart Graham
as Tom Cullen
Sean McGinley
as Smith
Gerard McSorley
as Cathal Brugha
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...