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Article: Neil Jordan's 'Michael Collins.' (film director)
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- Cineaste
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- September 22, 1996
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The Screenwriting of Irish History
While themes of Irish history and politics have often figured in the background of Neil Jordan's fiction (The Past, Night in Tunisia, Nightlines) and his films (Angel and The Crying Game), they are the focus of his new film, Michael Collins, which could easily be described as an Irish Birth of a Nation (or, more precisely, a nation divided). Through the character of this legendary Irish revolutionary, Jordan explains, he has been able to "tell the story of the most pivotal period in Irish history" and "to chronicle the events that formed the north and south of Ireland as they are today." Although the film's portrait of this very ...