Michael Collins, from 1916 to 1922
April 10 was 25 years after the Good Friday Agreement, and 24 May will be 100 years after the end of the Irish civil war. Neil Jordan’s 1996 film Michael Collins , with Liam Neeson as the Republican military leader Michael Collins, begins with the defeat of the 1916 uprising in Dublin. Collins vows that the next struggle will be different, a guerrilla war where the British superiority in numbers and arms will not prove decisive. After springing Eamon de Valera (Alan Rickman) from prison, he builds up an effective guerrilla force. He wipes out the British secret service agents in Dublin and the...