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A 16 page paper which examines the relationship between the presentation of facts in Neil Jordan's 1996 film on the Irish revolutionary, Michael Collins, and the historical record of his life to determine whether or not the movie is an accurate depiction. Bibliography lists 13 sources.
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16 pages (~225 words per page)
File: TG15_TGcolins.rtf
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path / We stray from the roadway here / We swim the rivers of wrath / We tunnel the hills of fear / Our feet on the torrents brink /
Our eyes on the clouds afar / We fear the things we think / Instead of the things that are" ("Ireland" eire.html). This poem by John Boyle OReilly could
have well been written Irish revolutionary leader, Michael Collins, describing the real man versus the public perception, offered in the 1996 film, directed and scripted by fellow Irishman Neil Jordan.
Before the films wide release, most Americans had never even heard of Michael Collins, but it was this devout nationalist who forever changed the political landscape of Ireland.
Depending on whose information you choose to believe, Collins was either a patriotic savior or an early twentieth-century terrorist, the likes of a modern-day Saddam Hussein. Unfortunately, because of
his martyred assassination in 1922, much of what has come to represent Michael Collins is more fiction than fact. Jordans ambitious film, which had taken 13 years to reach
the screen, was an attempt to explore the complexities of the man behind the myth, as well as provide Collins with the international recognition that had largely eluded him beyond
the boundaries of Eire. While Jordans film begins amidst the political turmoil of Ireland in 1916, with Jordan at the center of the impending storm, his life had begun 26
years earlier, on October 16, 1890, in the small farming community of County Cork, Ireland (Miss 33). The youngest of eight children, his father, Michael Sr., was already 75
years old at the time of his namesakes birth, and on his deathbed six years later, was reported to have prophetically uttered, "Mind that child. Hell be a great
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