I watched this when I was 10 not knowing anything about Collins. But my dad loved the Irish and the Big Fella. So when I saw this scene I started tearing up because I knew he was about to die. When he finally died I couldn't stop crying. Being embarrassed because I was crying in front of my dad. I tried to stop but I looked over and he had tears in his eyes to. Ireland lost a fucking hero this day!
BE PROUD That you had a hero we'll worthy of your tears and your respect Yours were not the only tears she'd for MICHAEL COLLINS Even today and in the years yet to come Hearts will ache for the injustice and pain of the life of the true brave genuine patriot ❤
You don't know how true your words are the worst thing about Michael's death was the shower of clowns that followed him basically they turned Ireland into no country for the young.
Do any of you believe that he'd have supported the blue shirt nazi bastards that have called themselves FG.. Or have tolerated the parasites of ff.. I don't think so.. What a corrupt bunch of self serving traitorous shits we have had leading our beautiful country.. Elected by who?? Tits that are self serving towards themselves.. Why irish shot their own? I can understand
The Big Fella was born 130 years ago today (16-10-1890). The Greatest Irish Hero. I’m proud to have Cork Irish blood running through me. My Grandpa, Thomas Patrick Hayes, was from Youghal his mother’s maiden name was Collins. We should all follow a path of freedom. Big Love for the Big Fella.
For anyone curious, Michaels final scenes were shot in a village called Hollywood in Co.Wicklow. The statue and little dirt track are still there to this day.
Liam Neeson is soon a hero of my thoughts, not my dreams, because his deep voice comforts me and warms me up in the heart for a father figure with a very true Irish tone.
He DID do what was best because my way of think is that if he never would have been killed he would have gone against the treaty (as he would have seen Britain doing through history) and fought to win 6 counties with 26 backing him up instead of saying no to the treaty and trying to win over the whole of Ireland only with back ally heroes and no counties or legitimate military force behind him.
Eamon DeValera caused the death of Michael Collins. Because of De Valera, he & his followers started the Civil War in Ireland. How pleased the British were to have Irish brothers against brother. Families torn apart because they would not accept the treaty that Collins agreed to. The treaty that allowed the 6 counties in the North to remain under British Rule. As Collins signed the treaty he knew, he said it’s like signing my death warrant. The treaty allowed the 20 remaining counties to form The Republic of Ireland. It should have been a joyful celebration, instead it turned into a bloody Civil War. Michael Collins was assassinated by the men of the North who supported DeValera. ‘A Terrible Beauty was born.’ My father, James J O’Sullivan was born in Athea, Ireland August 1896. He fought alongside Michael Collins from the Easter Rebellion 1916 till Collin’s death. Devastated by this news, he left Ireland in 1922 and sailed to Canada.
@@dvl889 I'm actually on De Valera's side. I'm just saying, the Empire played a game at which it is well practiced. Namely, divide and conquer. Whose interests did the Civil War serve? They played us all like the Mics we apparently are.
@@user-lt5zf4xh7d - There were more Protestant northern Irish people in those 6 counties than in the whole of Ireland. Both Michael Collins and Eamon De Valera knew that if the the 6 counties were integrated then those protestants would have a constant democratic majority. It was therefore the only feasible solution to partition and Collins was setup by De Valera to do the necessary while he kept himself 'pure' for later political gain...but HE knew that the truth would eventually emerge historically to show his craftiness and guile and the part he really played. As for "the Empire" the British literally had protestant northern Irish threatening armed uprising against Catholics AND the British government to force themselves to be kept under that British rule. Quite the impossible quandary for Britain itself. And looking at the extra billions that were spent in northern Ireland compared to other parts of the United Kingdom since those times, it proves the price of Empire can be costly for ALL parties and as hard to withdraw from as it was to conquer?🤔
That prophesy has yet to be obligatory for the Irish peoples'constitutional significance of the Irish peoples'individual "right" republic called eireannach as Eire.
Before this was made Kevin Costner wanted to make a movie about Michael Collins with him playing the leading part. He even spent a few days to get the Irish atmosphere. Thank goodness that never happened.
+Exposer O' Fraud Of course it is gone. Ireland joined the EU and Britain did too so for Britain to suffer in the EU could be seen from Irish eyes as an example of poetic justice
What a load of rubbish. Ireland is as free as it can ever be. Also free of the shackles of,the church. EU membership has been very positive for Ireland.
what the fuck would people know about this great man. he was a hero in more ways than one. Hey beat the English empire at its own game, he gave me, my kids a real life and a future. Greastest respect to him and those of 1916
I go 2 hes grave my lil boy is buired over the oter side in glassnevin i go 2 michael grave all da time after seen my boy..michael collins is my hero..an it sickins me ppl say 2 me he recked r land no he brough us peace R.i.P michael.
Johnathon Bryne- I agree! Churchill and Lloyd George threatened him with "great and terrible war" if he didn't sign; Ireland had been leeched off for centuries by the British empire by that stage and no way would our nation have been able to defend herself properly! The death toll would have been enormous and we hadn't even remotely recovered from the mass genocide of AAn Gorta Mor at that time in term so population-still haven't! He signed to save Irish lives but that didn't mean he'd given up on the Republic. R.I.P. Michael!
THE magnitude of what Michael Collins accomplished in such a short time is hard to imagine The British Empire was renowned for its intelligence it's spies They didn't think anyone least of a Irish Paddy could have the slightest chance against them especially when it came to intelligence They prided themselves in knowing every move of both friend and foe To think that a young man could put together an intelligence network to not only rival them but to beat them at their own game People today don't seem to realise the magnitude of that achievement And to think how he was treated is very painful still to this Almost 100 years after he was killed REST EASY IN PEACE MICHAEL COLLINS we didn't deserve you
You know Hugh we drove the British out of the country. Well, most of it. The Irish were the first small nation to do that in the British empire. Collins played his part in the fight for Irish freedom. Just like any man that gave his life for Ireland. Micheal Collins was killed because his ego strayed outside his field of expertise. He made it very clear to everyone that they were going to stop and fight if they were shot at. Not very smart considering that the ambushers always chose an area to their advantage. He was winning the civil war and he made a calculated mistake in that he wanted to show he was in control of everywhere in the country. He's give you a slap around the head if he thought you had pity for him.
From a northern irish man, respect for what this man achieved for his country..would credit anyman that could pull of what he done..judaced by what todays answer too is the dissident republicans..salute
@freebeerfordworkers 100,000 great war volunteers came from the 6 counties? Lol, best check your statistics there. 100,000 men didn't come from even the 9 ulster counties, which together made the ulster division
@@shredder9536 to put it in Emate Dalton's words he said I'll never forgive any bastard that hid behind a wall and tried to kill me he didn't hold back on saying the kind of cowards they were and if you don't see what they done as cold blooded murder you need to take a step back and take a long hard look at yourselves boys
@@Minime163 it wasn't murder. The IRA were fighting a war against British backed free staters. They were ambushed the same way the Tans were ambushed. Hit and run guerilla warfare.
A great hero and statesman. R.i.p. Big man...the greatest Irishman to ever have lived, and laid down his life for peace and Ireland. Mick Collins bless him. A true patriot and freedom fighter. X
@@shredder9536 the brits gave him no choice,it was sign the threaty or go back empty handed,he never wanted to go to England In the first place he wanted dev to do it,of course dev wouldn't go so he did the dirty work and it got him killed.he didn't start no war
john grace yet they did , Mick. yet they did.. and with your death Ireland was doomed. doomed to economic stagnation by vested interests. doomed by New World Order Irish political sock puppets that signed away what you lived and died for Irish independence when they yoked Ireland to the communist European Union.
Eamon De Velara said ‘ it is my opinion that in the passing of time my name will be forsaken for Michaels. Michael Collins brought the British empire to a stalemate with a photo from Cairo. The photo was of agents they brought in. They were killed on their doorsteps.
De Valera has a lot to answer for. He set Collins up to take the fall because he knew himself that the 32 county republic would not have been achievable at that time. I'm sure Collins was waiting for Dev at the pearly gates
my grandfather fought against the traitor collins and the free state army with Ernie o mallys 2nd southern divison of the IRA this song was always my grandmothers favourite song
My grandfather was always a Collins man and was a volunteer in the Cork brigade during the war of independence. In the civil war, he was still in the Cork brigade but still admired his friend Michael Collins. He always blamed De Valera for the killing of Michael Collins, and given his background, I suspect he had some contemporary knowledge on the subject. My grandfather always referred to Eamon (George) De Valera as "That Spanish Bastard". De Valera was born in the US, to an Irish mother and Spanish Father, so not really Irish.
Michael Collins, 1920: "Are we all yet educated to be free? Has not the greater number oF us still the speech of the foreigner on our tongues? Are not even we, who are proudly calling ourselves Gaels, little more than imitation Englishmen?...The survival of some connection with our former enemy, since it has no power to chain us, should act as a useful irritant. It should be a continual reminder of how near we came to being, indeed, a British nation. No one now has any power to make us that but ourselves alone....The biggest task will be the restoration of the language…Irish will scarcely be our language in this generation, not even perhaps in the next. But until we have it again on our tongues and in our minds, we are not free….”
That is the pure truth, for with language comes culture, and with culture the notion of self awareness. We have a similar problem. However, you are one people and that is your asset. My respects to a hero, from someone hailed from O'Higgins-land at the ends of the world.
@@santiagoflores4913 Muchas gracias. Our problem is, as Michael Collins put it so well, "the greater number of us still has the speech of the foreigner on our tongues". How to open their eyes, and get them to want to return to the language of their ancestors.
The Brits played Mick Collins like a fiddle. Getting him to murder Irishmen for England and The Crown. He ultimately knew what fate had in store for him. For fulfilling the work of our foe. Sad.
Went to bail na blaith today. Completey different place to where the movie shows he was shot. The hill they shot from was far closer to the road and no where near as high up. Although it is perfect ambush territory where he was shot
The man who shot Michael served in the British army as a marksman but was injured then he joined the ric against the IRA.when the civil war happened he joined the anti treaty side which was odd his name was Donny O’Neill
Denis sonny o Neill, he had met collins on several occasions, many believe collins intentional let this happen to mayter himself, a bizarre statement,collins was also rumoured to have no interest in women, poor kitty was used as a scapegoat
disagree! Schindlers list is his best role. In Collins you have Neeson playing a figure who was aged 32 when Neeson must have been in his 40's or early 50's . Collins would have had a cork accent while Neesons accent remains Northern Irish and so , throughout, you are seeing Neeson, not Collins.
He was barely 30 when he died. As he died he held several jobs in govt simultaneously Today men in their late 30s have never left their parents home men in their 20s in college have never had a job He shows what you can do if you push yourself
Brilliant Movie Thank good Hollywood did not make this classic or Michael Collins would have won the Battle of the little bighorn and won the American Civil war in one Day.
Thanks Guys for the comment. You have to understand that your story is totally incomprehensible, for us. Sorry but is the true. Today, nobody no return to the past... :-(
i really dont know whats more upsetting collins actually dying or kitty going to buy her wedding dress for their wedding and finding out he was dead right after that
I Saw this movie.I remenber this part.I was this movie when I have ten years, in the years 2000 I did not fail according to what I saw in the movie, I hope that at least they do not fail me.
There was not one point for Julia Roberts to be in this film other than a bullshit hollywood exec wanting us to take here-funny that her role kind of reflects, paradoxically, the treaty in some ways, giving up soverignty for the promise of a unified country was like accepting awful JR in her role as Kitty Kiernan. We sold out to the Brits as we sold out our culture to some ingrate in Lah Lah land.
+Marcus Maher: Julia Roberts was cast in Neil Jordan's film to sell movie tickets in the United States, because she was a big box office draw in the 1990s. It was likely part of the deal the director made with Warner Bros. to get the financing for the $25 million project, because the Irish share of the film's production costs was only perhaps $3 million at best. Her supporting role was in the initial screenplay was minimal, and was expanded only when the Anglo-Irish negotiations over Northern Ireland broke down during film production in 1995. Warner Bros. pressured Jordan to expand the love story aspect between Kitty Kiernan and Michael Collins, in order to downplay the film's own account of a similar breakdown in Anglo-Irish negotiations in 1922. Personally, while I don't think Ms. Roberts was necessarily miscast as Kitty Kiernan, an Irish actress in the part would certainly have been better all around.
I don't see how geopolitical issues with regard to NI would have played a part in this, are you telling me some Exec in Dummywood understood the issues between the Provos and the Unionists in the North...seriously, and the sweet sight of JR would bring the nascent parties to their senses...haha...yeah.. that tagged on love interest got the Good Friday agreement signed pronto.Let me tell you the reality as an Irishman and it was a financial decision and it went like this "You know what Neil...Julia wants more screen time..." Jordan interrupts "But rich Hollywood exec I've not written her character.. "exec interrupts forcefully "I REPEAT....Julia wants her character expanding...capish Paddy"!!!...that's probably how it played out!
I feel so sorry for that poor man he gave his life to achieve Irish freedom and majority of Irish people would rather see northern Ireland under British rule
The Northern Irish people VOTED to stay in the United Kingdom in the 1973 referendum and today polls show the same desire to stay in UK. Plus, the hard reality that many won't speak of is that all those protestant northern Irish voters would massively upset the balance of political power in a United Ireland and destroy the southern Irish catholic powerbase. This was a fact Michael Collins understood back in 1922 when he agreed to sign the 6 counties away because they had more protestant voters in the 6 counties at the time than the rest of the country and would have held dangerous sway over ANY unified Irish democracy! Not to mention those loyalist protestants had sworn an uprising of their own if forcibly separated from the UK at the time? So it was always a material necessity to partition the country for ANY truly free Irish Free State to survive and both Collins and De Valera knew this, but Collins served his countries needs and De Valera served his own political best interests by keeping himself 'pure' in the public eye. History knows his guile and its not the first time a military man has been played craftily by a natural politician.
Does anyone know the story behind the filming/editing of this sequence? I have always wanted to know if the irregular that slips at 00:51 did that on purpose to show urgency/realism or if he just wiped-out and they kept the camera rolling. My guess is the latter. I've always imagined the other extras slapping him on the back in the pub after filming wrapped and having a good laugh. Haha.
I don't know anything about it, but in this context I'd guess its intentional seeing as how nobody hesitates, and Johnathan Rhys Meyers instantly says his lines without hesitation too.
I lived in Cork city as a student, and to be honest, Cork people are the most stubborn people on Earth. On the tin, like. The British Empire picked the wrong fight with the wrong people.
I don't think so. The Unionists in the north were pretty determined to stay British and the 1922 offensive led by Collins proved the North was well equipped to stop any invasion. Plus the Conservatives in Britain were at the end of their rope, the Irish Free State within the Commonwealth was seen as too far for them, if the North had been given up too it would've caused renewed calls to send the entire British Army in and reverse everything that had been achieved.
Ireland and England have a long, intimate and troubled relationship. One has many kings and queens who ruled the people. The other has more kings and Queens than people. ♥️😎
Olivia . . . Please explain your enigmatic comment . . . Or maybe it is just me that fails to understand it ? Best wishes always , Brendan and Ryan in Dublin Ireland 🇮🇪 ☘️.
I'm so glad Sinead O'Connor sang this song for this film. This bit always punched me in the gut.
May she RIP ❤️
She was a one hit wonder.
Not kind. May she RIP. Amen.
@@annwalsh8079 Supporting IRA terrorism destroyed her career.
Out of central casting for it she was ♥️ Epic
99 years after the death of a true Irish leader. You are still missed Big Fellah.
And still missed after 100 years Mick
Was at the centenary myself. Even 100 years on always feel sad
@@stephencarroll9935 we love you mick
He knew the Treaty was the way forward.
Aye that he was that he was
From an English man, I salute Michael Collins. May perpetual light shine upon him may he rest in peace amen.
Collins was a traitor to Ireland, which is why the IRA killed him.
I watched this when I was 10 not knowing anything about Collins. But my dad loved the Irish and the Big Fella. So when I saw this scene I started tearing up because I knew he was about to die. When he finally died I couldn't stop crying. Being embarrassed because I was crying in front of my dad. I tried to stop but I looked over and he had tears in his eyes to. Ireland lost a fucking hero this day!
he may be called the big fella hes also called the smiling boy
Crybaby fenian
BE PROUD That you had a hero we'll worthy of your tears and your respect Yours were not the only tears she'd for MICHAEL COLLINS Even today and in the years yet to come Hearts will ache for the injustice and pain of the life of the true brave genuine patriot ❤
Yes the great Irish 🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪☘️🎥❤️ hero who died in baltheblat
You don't know how true your words are the worst thing about Michael's death was the shower of clowns that followed him basically they turned Ireland into no country for the young.
The greatest man this country has ever seen , Rest in peace Michael, for we shall never see a man like ever again. Tíocfaidh ar lá agus slán.
Irishman .👍👍👍👍
Eamon de Valera was always jealous of him hence he started a pointless civil war.
@Snaggle Toothed and your next line will be the famine was caused by fussy eaters I guess
Close, James Connolly is numero uno , Jim Larkin second and Mick is maybe third place. probs forgot greater men and women.
Snaggle Toothed Twat!
This scene was sad enough on its own, but adding that song is a fucking punch in the gut.
That hero deserved a longer life
He'd live long enough to see himself become the villain like dev
Heroes never die
What about the United Irishmen of 1798.
If he'd lived till he was 100 he'd have shot the arseholes that represented him..
Do any of you believe that he'd have supported the blue shirt nazi bastards that have called themselves FG.. Or have tolerated the parasites of ff.. I don't think so.. What a corrupt bunch of self serving traitorous shits we have had leading our beautiful country.. Elected by who?? Tits that are self serving towards themselves.. Why irish shot their own? I can understand
The Big Fella was born 130 years ago today (16-10-1890). The Greatest Irish Hero. I’m proud to have Cork Irish blood running through me. My Grandpa, Thomas Patrick Hayes, was from Youghal his mother’s maiden name was Collins.
We should all follow a path of freedom. Big Love for the Big Fella.
Collins is an English surname so every chance your ancestors were planted protestants from England or Scotland
A true Patriot of Ireland! He served his Country
We love and Miss you Mick Collins one of the Greatest Irishmen ever,rip the Big fella. 🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪
took the soup .. still on going
@@garymartin9921 ??
For anyone curious, Michaels final scenes were shot in a village called Hollywood in Co.Wicklow. The statue and little dirt track are still there to this day.
and it bears no resemblance to Beal na Blath which is flatter with only medium sized hills in rolling countryside
@@brianbozo2447 It simliar but a lot bigger
Where the dirt road
I took a picture outside Hollywood post office years ago
The real man sitting in the back of the sleve na mhán with him was Emmett Dalton why didn't he feature on the movie.
Our Day will come Mick..Our day will come
Liam Neeson is soon a hero of my thoughts, not my dreams, because his deep voice comforts me and warms me up in the heart for a father figure with a very true Irish tone.
Neeson is just a racist.
The Big Man did what he thought was best for the island.
RIP
Sorry, spelling mistake!
+lg tips and tricks you never spelt it right either
He DID do what was best because my way of think is that if he never would have been killed he would have gone against the treaty (as he would have seen Britain doing through history) and fought to win 6 counties with 26 backing him up instead of saying no to the treaty and trying to win over the whole of Ireland only with back ally heroes and no counties or legitimate military force behind him.
They all thought they were doing the best for Ireland: The only people not doing the beat for Ireland, were the British 🥺
Roy Smith big fella*
'I fear that history shall record the greatness of Michael Collins at my expense' Eamon De Valera. Yep it sure did
Eamon DeValera caused the death of Michael Collins. Because of De Valera, he & his followers started the Civil War in Ireland. How pleased the British were to have Irish brothers against brother. Families torn apart because they would not accept the treaty that Collins agreed to. The treaty that allowed the 6 counties in the North to remain under British Rule. As Collins signed the treaty he knew, he said it’s like signing my death warrant. The treaty allowed the 20 remaining counties to form The Republic of Ireland. It should have been a joyful celebration, instead it turned into a bloody Civil War. Michael Collins was assassinated by the men of the North who supported DeValera. ‘A Terrible Beauty was born.’
My father, James J O’Sullivan was born in Athea, Ireland August 1896. He fought alongside Michael Collins from the Easter Rebellion 1916 till Collin’s death. Devastated by this news, he left Ireland in 1922 and sailed to Canada.
@@dvl889 I'm actually on De Valera's side. I'm just saying, the Empire played a game at which it is well practiced. Namely, divide and conquer. Whose interests did the Civil War serve? They played us all like the Mics we apparently are.
@@user-lt5zf4xh7d - There were more Protestant northern Irish people in those 6 counties than in the whole of Ireland. Both Michael Collins and Eamon De Valera knew that if the the 6 counties were integrated then those protestants would have a constant democratic majority.
It was therefore the only feasible solution to partition and Collins was setup by De Valera to do the necessary while he kept himself 'pure' for later political gain...but HE knew that the truth would eventually emerge historically to show his craftiness and guile and the part he really played.
As for "the Empire" the British literally had protestant northern Irish threatening armed uprising against Catholics AND the British government to force themselves to be kept under that British rule. Quite the impossible quandary for Britain itself. And looking at the extra billions that were spent in northern Ireland compared to other parts of the United Kingdom since those times, it proves the price of Empire can be costly for ALL parties and as hard to withdraw from as it was to conquer?🤔
That prophesy has yet to be obligatory for the Irish peoples'constitutional significance of the Irish peoples'individual "right" republic called eireannach as Eire.
Expenses expensed .
Fantastic that a true Irishman acted as Michael.
A racist played the traitor.
Before this was made Kevin Costner wanted to make a movie about Michael Collins with him playing the leading part. He even spent a few days to get the Irish atmosphere. Thank goodness that never happened.
Lol i think it would have been decent tbf he has talked about doing a film since On Irish history
And then we got Julia Roberts playing Kitty Kiernan.
Maybe he could play wolf tone
@@sham5280To be fair to her, she didn’t want to do it. Liam Neeson asked her to bring some star power into the film.
Correct, the Ballymena man was the correct choice as he has the pedigree to do so as an individual and the talent as an actor.
Sinead o'Connor 'she moved through the fair' is perfect for this scene 🇮🇪
And now she’s left us… 😢
Always makes me cry
me to....
me too! felt really felt geuinely sad when i first saw this in the cinema back in 1996.
Me too and i watched it on my phone
I remember watching this for the first time in 6th class primary school, even 11yo kids with little interest in history cried at this part
Ah, Jesus, Mick.. don't go, Mick, don't go on us...
But go Mick did, and today the freedom he and his generation fought for is gone.
+Exposer O' Fraud Of course it is gone. Ireland joined the EU and Britain did too so for Britain to suffer in the EU could be seen from Irish eyes as an example of poetic justice
@@pavloivanchenko6346 fail
What a load of rubbish. Ireland is as free as it can ever be. Also free of the shackles of,the church. EU membership has been very positive for Ireland.
@@murpho999 filling the place up with foreigners is hardly positive now is it .
Ireland never achieved freedom
I love this version of the song. Goosebumps!
I passed through Beal na Bláth on Monday and I immediately pictured this scene as I looked up the two slopes
All Irish people should be so proud of him
Why? I certainly am not
@@janeos01 Its because of him there is an Irish free state
@@aussiegod4269 How long did the so-called Irish Free State last. How many did the IFS and Mulcahey murder....look at Ballinsheedy, Co Kerry alone
Tom Feeney it’s still here but they changed the name to the Irish defence forces
@@janeos01 Not as many as Sinn Fein/IRA,
Rest in peace general Collins 🙏🇮🇪
what the fuck would people know about this great man. he was a hero in more ways than one. Hey beat the English empire at its own game, he gave me, my kids a real life and a future. Greastest respect to him and those of 1916
Peter Callaghan British Empire.
Peter Callaghan always are hero R.I.p michael always in are hearts u be never forgotton
I go 2 hes grave my lil boy is buired over the oter side in glassnevin i go 2 michael grave all da time after seen my boy..michael collins is my hero..an it sickins me ppl say 2 me he recked r land no he brough us peace R.i.P michael.
Peter Callaghan im reading hes book wat a legent an hes family im a dublin man iv da greatest respect for him
Johnathon Bryne- I agree! Churchill and Lloyd George threatened him with "great and terrible war" if he didn't sign; Ireland had been leeched off for centuries by the British empire by that stage and no way would our nation have been able to defend herself properly! The death toll would have been enormous and we hadn't even remotely recovered from the mass genocide of AAn Gorta Mor at that time in term so population-still haven't! He signed to save Irish lives but that didn't mean he'd given up on the Republic. R.I.P. Michael!
RIP to the great Michael Collins, a true Irish legend
Even though it's a dramatisation of real events, I love this scene. Very evocative.
THE magnitude of what Michael Collins accomplished in such a short time is hard to imagine The British Empire was renowned for its intelligence it's spies They didn't think anyone least of a Irish Paddy could have the slightest chance against them especially when it came to intelligence They prided themselves in knowing every move of both friend and foe To think that a young man could put together an intelligence network to not only rival them but to beat them at their own game People today don't seem to realise the magnitude of that achievement And to think how he was treated is very painful still to this Almost 100 years after he was killed REST EASY IN PEACE MICHAEL COLLINS we didn't deserve you
You know Hugh we drove the British out of the country. Well, most of it. The Irish were the first small nation to do that in the British empire. Collins played his part in the fight for Irish freedom. Just like any man that gave his life for Ireland. Micheal Collins was killed because his ego strayed outside his field of expertise. He made it very clear to everyone that they were going to stop and fight if they were shot at. Not very smart considering that the ambushers always chose an area to their advantage. He was winning the civil war and he made a calculated mistake in that he wanted to show he was in control of everywhere in the country. He's give you a slap around the head if he thought you had pity for him.
Praise for the father of urban guerilla war. The Provisional IRA may be terrorist but I respect them for their quality.
@@peterdoyle1591 they still here
@@peterdoyle1591 show us, were You got this information, because it sounds made-up!
@@southgatemma5249 Meda Ryan's book. 'The Day Micheal Collins Was Shot' Why do you think it's made up? Or what part?
Stood next to his grave last month, god bless michael collins an irish hero in every way
100 years since he died on 22nd August 😔 R.I.P. 🇮🇪
100 years Rest In Peace Michael Collins son of Ireland 🇮🇪✊🙏
When hes shouting at him not to go it breaks my heart every time. Because he knows there wont be another like him again
One of the best struggle of independence film that ive ever have the honor to watch... expressing respect from msia
From a northern irish man, respect for what this man achieved for his country..would credit anyman that could pull of what he done..judaced by what todays answer too is the dissident republicans..salute
Theres no such thing as NORTHERN IRISH!???
@@worldofnarnia6227 100 years and counting this years pal..NORTHERN IRELAND UNBOWED UNBROKEN AND UNDEFEATED
@@johnc3177 Collins wanted to end partition, what are you talking about mate
@freebeerfordworkers 100,000 great war volunteers came from the 6 counties? Lol, best check your statistics there. 100,000 men didn't come from even the 9 ulster counties, which together made the ulster division
@freebeerfordworkers I see you haven't a clue what you're talking about. Good day
100 years to the day since his murder, still a hero. RIP big fella.
Murder?
It wasn't murder.
@@shredder9536 to put it in Emate Dalton's words he said I'll never forgive any bastard that hid behind a wall and tried to kill me he didn't hold back on saying the kind of cowards they were and if you don't see what they done as cold blooded murder you need to take a step back and take a long hard look at yourselves boys
@@shredder9536 Go on shredder. Hide behind a fake name. You haven't even the balls to put your real name to your opinions.
@@Minime163 it wasn't murder. The IRA were fighting a war against British backed free staters. They were ambushed the same way the Tans were ambushed. Hit and run guerilla warfare.
100 years to this day, RIP big fella
In my dreams I thought of you you born for a cause you were the greatest you stood up to to the British empire god bless you 🇨🇮🇨🇮🇨🇮🇨🇮
Michael Collins was a great man
joannelovesmakeup just to say I know he's northern Irish but I'm Catholic aswell and I have no problem with it
Indeed
Sum man
Well portrayed by mr neeson
Lucas Branagan he’s from cork not Northern Ireland
'they're trying to fuckin' kill me' I can believe that those might have been his last words.
He said ouch.
A great hero and statesman. R.i.p. Big man...the greatest Irishman to ever have lived, and laid down his life for peace and Ireland. Mick Collins bless him. A true patriot and freedom fighter. X
He was a traitor to Ireland.
He's such an inspiration!
This makes me cry everytime I watch it, the fact that he was killed by one of our own
@@johnny2f55 not victims at all.
It was his own fault for starting a war against the IRA
@@shredder9536 the brits gave him no choice,it was sign the threaty or go back empty handed,he never wanted to go to England In the first place he wanted dev to do it,of course dev wouldn't go so he did the dirty work and it got him killed.he didn't start no war
@@weximan1 fact
That's tragedy for you
One leader one county one independence
Yerra, they'd never kill me in my own county.
They would and they did
Something Collins said before he left for cork, not my words lady
john grace
yet they did , Mick. yet they did.. and with your death Ireland was doomed. doomed to economic stagnation by vested interests. doomed by New World Order Irish political sock puppets that signed away what you lived and died for Irish independence when they yoked Ireland to the communist European Union.
But free of the United Kingdom
My hero the greatest irishman to ever live thank u mrs Collins erin go braigh
Such a very sad ending to this great movie, Michael Collins was the complete Irish hero.
Eamon De Velara said ‘ it is my opinion that in the passing of time my name will be forsaken for Michaels. Michael Collins brought the British empire to a stalemate with a photo from Cairo. The photo was of agents they brought in. They were killed on their doorsteps.
De Valera has a lot to answer for. He set Collins up to take the fall because he knew himself that the 32 county republic would not have been achievable at that time. I'm sure Collins was waiting for Dev at the pearly gates
Thank you!!!
I got this movies a couple of years ago and have never been able to watch it yet.
100 years ago today! God rest him
100 years ago tomorrow we lost this man.. you'd hate what they've done to this country
Una delle più belle e struggenti scene del cinema di tutti i tempi
We should call Dublin airport after Collins. James Joyce is another good 1 too, but Collins deserves it.
A public toilet would be more apt for the both of them.
Collins was a traitor and British collaborator
GREAT MAN
A real hero with charm
RIP Michael, Irelands Hero, Stopped The Suffering And Pain.
my grandfather fought against the traitor collins and the free state army with Ernie o mallys 2nd southern divison of the IRA this song was always my grandmothers favourite song
Traitors? Following the Yankee and call collins a Traitor.
@@user-ze8yy8jg1f because that's what he was a traitor
@@jamesdonaghy3104 they are all traitors
@@user-ze8yy8jg1f those who fought on for a 32 county republc where hero's Collins and those like him where the traitors
My grandfather was always a Collins man and was a volunteer in the Cork brigade during the war of independence. In the civil war, he was still in the Cork brigade but still admired his friend Michael Collins. He always blamed De Valera for the killing of Michael Collins, and given his background, I suspect he had some contemporary knowledge on the subject. My grandfather always referred to Eamon (George) De Valera as "That Spanish Bastard". De Valera was born in the US, to an Irish mother and Spanish Father, so not really Irish.
A true hero of our land there will never be another michael Colliins rip
One of Ireland greatest men died that day and so young
Michael Collins, 1920: "Are we all yet educated to be free? Has not the greater number oF us still the speech of the foreigner on our tongues? Are not even we, who are proudly calling ourselves Gaels, little more than imitation Englishmen?...The survival of some connection with our former enemy, since it has no power to chain us, should act as a useful irritant. It should be a continual reminder of how near we came to being, indeed, a British nation. No one now has any power to make us that but ourselves alone....The biggest task will be the restoration of the language…Irish will scarcely be our language in this generation, not even perhaps in the next. But until we have it again on our tongues and in our minds, we are not free….”
That is the pure truth, for with language comes culture, and with culture the notion of self awareness. We have a similar problem. However, you are one people and that is your asset. My respects to a hero, from someone hailed from O'Higgins-land at the ends of the world.
@@santiagoflores4913 Muchas gracias. Our problem is, as Michael Collins put it so well, "the greater number of us still has the speech of the foreigner on our tongues". How to open their eyes, and get them to want to return to the language of their ancestors.
always reminds me of Mairead..xxxxx
The Brits played Mick Collins like a fiddle. Getting him to murder Irishmen for England and The Crown. He ultimately knew what fate had in store for him. For fulfilling the work of our foe. Sad.
I love Micheal Collins
Ohh Michael we need you now 😢
The one and only . True leader . legend
Najlepszy film w historii
W historii czego? :)
@@KristVladic kinematografii
@@masterblaster7639 Szanuję Twoje zdanie.
Choć mnie dziwi.
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Went to bail na blaith today. Completey different place to where the movie shows he was shot. The hill they shot from was far closer to the road and no where near as high up. Although it is perfect ambush territory where he was shot
R.I.P to Ireland's greatest 💚☘️🇮🇪
I'd pay a lot to see Winston Churchill in a dress 😂 😂
Hail Glorious Patriot Legend's Of Éireann.☘🇮🇪💚
I can only dream of the Ireland it could have been....
The man who shot Michael served in the British army as a marksman but was injured then he joined the ric against the IRA.when the civil war happened he joined the anti treaty side which was odd his name was Donny O’Neill
Denis sonny o Neill, he had met collins on several occasions, many believe collins intentional let this happen to mayter himself, a bizarre statement,collins was also rumoured to have no interest in women, poor kitty was used as a scapegoat
@@paulnoonan8602 are you a unionist or a republican?
it was republicans actually because Collins was a traitor to Ireland and noeone knows the exact person who shot him
@@worldofnarnia6227 O’Neill was a republican and he is credited with killing Collins
Excelente película. Excelente y triste historia. Saludos desde Uruguay.
You can have Bryan Mills. This is Liam Neeson's best role.
disagree! Schindlers list is his best role.
In Collins you have Neeson playing a figure who was aged 32 when Neeson must have been in his 40's or early 50's . Collins would have had a cork accent while Neesons accent remains Northern Irish and so , throughout, you are seeing Neeson, not Collins.
@@brianbozo2447 Did Schindler die in an ambush fighting for his country? I think not.
@@padraicglynn2657 no he pulled out his lightsaber and fckt those storm troopers right up.
@@brianbozo2447 To the Irish, Michael Collins is a hero, and Liam Neeson played him brilliantly
The same film also had Brendan Gleeson who played Michael Collins in another film
He was barely 30 when he died. As he died he held several jobs in govt simultaneously
Today men in their late 30s have never left their parents home men in their 20s in college have never had a job
He shows what you can do if you push yourself
He was just a terrorist who betrayed Ireland.
Brilliant Movie Thank good Hollywood did not make this classic or Michael Collins would have won the Battle of the little bighorn and won the American Civil war in one Day.
Thanks Guys for the comment. You have to understand that your story is totally incomprehensible, for us. Sorry but is the true. Today, nobody no return to the past... :-(
Piotr Janasz
Watch 'The Wind that Shakes the Barley'; far more historically accurate and less 'hollywood'
I rarely cry but I remember crying as a youngen at his death
Are you 110?
What's the song called for this
les prince - She moved through the fair - By Sinead o' connor
What a man. I would have fought side by side with him anyway of the week. The Big Fella (1890-1922)
i really dont know whats more upsetting collins actually dying or kitty going to buy her wedding dress for their wedding and finding out he was dead right after that
A hero
Those goddammit traitors
Scotland needed a Michael Collins
Scotland colonised Ulster.
@@MarkHarrison733 not my Scotland
@@Rick-S-70 The Parliament of Scotland enacted the Plantation of Ulster.
@MarkHarrison733 I know they did that why we needed a Collins
@@Rick-S-70 Collins betrayed Ireland.
Me and twin loves the film and he lives in crock proud Irish man and so am I
I Saw this movie.I remenber this part.I was this movie when I have ten years, in the years 2000 I did not fail according to what I saw in the movie, I hope that at least they do not fail me.
❤❤❤❤
What song is this. Amazing.
It's called 'She Moved Through The Fair'. Lots of versions, - this one is sung by Sinéad Ó'Connor.
There was not one point for Julia Roberts to be in this film other than a bullshit hollywood exec wanting us to take here-funny that her role kind of reflects, paradoxically, the treaty in some ways, giving up soverignty for the promise of a unified country was like accepting awful JR in her role as Kitty Kiernan. We sold out to the Brits as we sold out our culture to some ingrate in Lah Lah land.
+Marcus Maher I'm american and I would have to agree...surely an Irish person could have been found for this role :/
+Marcus Maher: Julia Roberts was cast in Neil Jordan's film to sell movie tickets in the United States, because she was a big box office draw in the 1990s. It was likely part of the deal the director made with Warner Bros. to get the financing for the $25 million project, because the Irish share of the film's production costs was only perhaps $3 million at best. Her supporting role was in the initial screenplay was minimal, and was expanded only when the Anglo-Irish negotiations over Northern Ireland broke down during film production in 1995. Warner Bros. pressured Jordan to expand the love story aspect between Kitty Kiernan and Michael Collins, in order to downplay the film's own account of a similar breakdown in Anglo-Irish negotiations in 1922. Personally, while I don't think Ms. Roberts was necessarily miscast as Kitty Kiernan, an Irish actress in the part would certainly have been better all around.
I don't see how geopolitical issues with regard to NI would have played a part in this, are you telling me some Exec in Dummywood understood the issues between the Provos and the Unionists in the North...seriously, and the sweet sight of JR would bring the nascent parties to their senses...haha...yeah.. that tagged on love interest got the Good Friday agreement signed pronto.Let me tell you the reality as an Irishman and it was a financial decision and it went like this "You know what Neil...Julia wants more screen time..." Jordan interrupts "But rich Hollywood exec I've not written her character.. "exec interrupts forcefully "I REPEAT....Julia wants her character expanding...capish Paddy"!!!...that's probably how it played out!
I feel so sorry for that poor man he gave his life to achieve Irish freedom and majority of Irish people would rather see northern Ireland under British rule
The Northern Irish people VOTED to stay in the United Kingdom in the 1973 referendum and today polls show the same desire to stay in UK. Plus, the hard reality that many won't speak of is that all those protestant northern Irish voters would massively upset the balance of political power in a United Ireland and destroy the southern Irish catholic powerbase. This was a fact Michael Collins understood back in 1922 when he agreed to sign the 6 counties away because they had more protestant voters in the 6 counties at the time than the rest of the country and would have held dangerous sway over ANY unified Irish democracy!
Not to mention those loyalist protestants had sworn an uprising of their own if forcibly separated from the UK at the time?
So it was always a material necessity to partition the country for ANY truly free Irish Free State to survive and both Collins and De Valera knew this, but Collins served his countries needs and De Valera served his own political best interests by keeping himself 'pure' in the public eye.
History knows his guile and its not the first time a military man has been played craftily by a natural politician.
God rest his soul 🙏
TAL!
Does anyone know the story behind the filming/editing of this sequence? I have always wanted to know if the irregular that slips at 00:51 did that on purpose to show urgency/realism or if he just wiped-out and they kept the camera rolling. My guess is the latter. I've always imagined the other extras slapping him on the back in the pub after filming wrapped and having a good laugh. Haha.
I don't know anything about it, but in this context I'd guess its intentional seeing as how nobody hesitates, and Johnathan Rhys Meyers instantly says his lines without hesitation too.
I lived in Cork city as a student, and to be honest, Cork people are the most stubborn people on Earth. On the tin, like. The British Empire picked the wrong fight with the wrong people.
Make no mistake. If this man had have lived
There would’ve been full reunification 🇮🇪🇮🇪
Fantasist
I don't think so. The Unionists in the north were pretty determined to stay British and the 1922 offensive led by Collins proved the North was well equipped to stop any invasion. Plus the Conservatives in Britain were at the end of their rope, the Irish Free State within the Commonwealth was seen as too far for them, if the North had been given up too it would've caused renewed calls to send the entire British Army in and reverse everything that had been achieved.
Complete nonsense.
So sad I cried when I seen that part
Ireland and England have a long, intimate and troubled relationship. One has many kings and queens who ruled the people. The other has more kings and Queens than people. ♥️😎
A century ago this day!
Already a 100 years since this happened!
😟
August 22, 1922
August 22, 2022
RIP Michael, your assassination will be avenged and unpunished as long as you remain Liam's guardian ❤
Olivia . . . Please explain your enigmatic comment . . . Or maybe it is just me that fails to understand it ?
Best wishes always ,
Brendan and Ryan in Dublin Ireland 🇮🇪 ☘️.
Tragic beyond words.