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Article: The Sidekick: Aidan Quinn is the "Forgotten Man," Harry Boland
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- Irish Voice
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- October 15, 1996
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Brian Rohan
Irish Voice
10-15-1996
The Sidekick: Aidan Quinn is the `Forgotten Man,' Harry Boland.
As a kid in Chicago born to Irish parents, and later as a transplanted teenager going to high school in his mother's hometown of Birr, Country Offaly, Aidan Quinn says he has vague recollections of hearing about Michael Collins. "But you know how it is when you're a kid," said the actor, "You don't really care or want to know about politics."
Decades later, in the spring of 1995, Quinn won a part in Neil Jordan's film biography, Michael collins. Filming was scheduled to begin that summer, so Quinn asked his friend, co-star and fellow New York State resident, Liam Neeson, what he should read to ...
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