“Michael Collins” quotes
(1996)
Neil Jordan
directed this movie
in 1996
Title Michael Collins
Year 1996
Director Neil Jordan
Genre Drama, Thriller, War, Biography
Year 1996
Director Neil Jordan
Genre Drama, Thriller, War, Biography
Plot – In 1916, during the revolt known as the Easter Rising, Irish revolutionaries surrendered to the overwhelming military power of the British Army after six days of resistance from their headquarters of the Post Office in Dublin. Among the revolutionary leaders, only the American citizen Eamon de Valera is spared from the firing squad. Many followers, including Michael Collins and his close friend Harry Boland, end up in prison. Once released, the two find themselves being the new leaders of the Irish independence movement. Collins throws himself headlong into the political and military struggle against British rule, traveling the country and making converts with his highly effective speeches and with his magnetic personality. After a violent confrontation with the Royal Irish police, his injuries are treated by Kitty Kiernan, a young woman whose beauty and independence grabs the attention of both Collins and Boland. Collins organizes a secret fearless force - the Irish Volunteers - which launches attacks out of nowhere against the British army and the British police.
All actors – Ian Hart, Julia Roberts, Richard Ingram, Liam Neeson, Aidan Quinn, John Kenny, Ronan McCairbre, Jer O'Leary, Michael Dwyer, Martin Murphy, Alan Rickman, Sean McGinley, Gary Whelan, Frank O'Sullivan, Stephen Rea, Frank Laverty, Owen O'Neill, Stuart Graham, Brendan Gleeson, Gerard McSorley, Liam De Staic, Owen Roe, Paul Bennett, Claude Clancy, Paul Hickey, Tom Murphy, David Gorry, Gary Lydon, David Wilmot, Joe Hanley, Colm Coogan, Aiden Grennell, Dave Seymour, Ian McElhinney, Tony Clarkin, Charles Dance, Luke Hayden, Gary Powell, Max Hafler, Aidan Kelly, Jim Isherwood, Michael James Ford, Mal Whyte, Martin Phillips, Aisling O'Sullivan, Malcolm Douglas, Brian 'Joker' Mulvey, Frank Patterson, Peter O'Brien, Michael McCabe, Vinnie McCabe, Alan Stanford, Gary Mullan, Barry Barnes, Denis Conway, Don Wycherley, Paraic Breathnach, Terry Woods, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Sean Hodkinson, Reamonn O'Byrne, Conor Breen, Michael Collins, David Lloyd George, Gareth Molan, Jean Kennedy Smith
show all“Michael Collins” Quotes 15 quotes
“I hate them for making hatred necessary, and I'll do what I can to end it.”
“I want peace and quiet. I want it so much I'd die for it.”
“- Eamon de Valera: They call us murderers.
- Michael Collins: War is murder! Sheer, bloody murder!”“Give us the future, we've had enough of your past. Give us back our country, to live in, to grow in, to love.”
“The Irish people established the Irish Republic. It can only be disestablished by the Irish people.”
“We have a weapon more powerful... than any in the whole arsenal of the British Empire! That weapon... is our refusal!”
“- Harry Boland: What happens next time?
- Michael Collins: Next time, Harry, we won't play by their rules. We'll invent our own!”“- Michael Collins: You know the problem with butterflies?
- Kitty Kiernan: What's that?
- Michael Collins: They only last one day.
- Harry Boland: Aye, but what a day, Mick!”“Make me a scapegoat if you will, call me a traitor, if you will; But please, let's save the country. The alternative to this treaty is a war which no one in this room can even contemplate. If the price of peace, if the price of freedom is the blackening of my name, I would gladly pay it.”
“The problem with the Irish is that they'll sing at the drop of a hat, but ask them to talk and they won't.”
“I can't understand your politics, but I appreciate your integrity.”
“- Kitty Kiernan: Is it true, Mick, that all of the women in America wear trousers?
- Michael Collins: Absolutely! Shameless hussies, the lot o' them.”
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