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Article: Bloody politics, daring cinema. (Neil Jordan, director of motion picture 'Michael Collins')(Interview)
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- Insight on the News
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- November 18, 1996
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He wasn't spoken about that much, really," says director Neil Jordan about the Irish revolutionary leader who is the subject of his newest film, Michael Collins. "I heard very little when I was younger. It's only over the past generation that Collins has reemerged as a figure of public renown."
Resourceful and ruthless, Collins (Liam Neeson) organized an underground of informants and gunmen known as the Irish Volunteers after surviving the Easter Uprising of 1916, which ended when British troops over-whelmed insurgents at Dublin's General Post Office.
The subsequent struggle for independence led to civil war among the Irish revolutionary comrades, ...