After the disastrous defeat of Irish rebels by superior UK forces during the Easter Rising, Michael Collins develops new strategies for the independence of Ireland. His tactics include what is now recognized as urban guerrilla tactics and organized assassinations of those Irish who work as informers for the UK government, and later members of British intelligence.
Although Collins is conflicted about the necessity of this violent course, by 1921 the British are willing to negotiate. Sinn Fein President Eamon de Valera sends a reluctant Collins to London to negotiate a settlement. When Collins returns with a compromise of a partitioned Ireland and an Irish Free State, not a Republic, within the British Empire he is vilified by de Valera and repudiated by lifelong friend Harry Boland after Boland learns that his girlfriend Kitty Kiernan is in love with Collins.
Collins is now faced with civil war as he struggles against those who insist on complete and unconditional independence for all of Ireland.
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Michael Collins
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Low whistle and Uilleann pipes
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Davy Spillane:
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Macushla
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She Moved Through The Fair
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Easter Rebellion
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Civil War
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Easter Rebellion (Sinead O'Connor)
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Elliot Goldenthal:
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Fire And Arms
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Elliot Goldenthal:
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Train Station Farewell
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Elliot Goldenthal:
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Winter Raid
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Elliot Goldenthal:
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Elegy For A Sunday
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Elliot Goldenthal:
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Football Match
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Elliot Goldenthal:
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On Cats Feet
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Elliot Goldenthal:
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Defiance And Arrest
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Elliot Goldenthal:
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Train To Granard
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Elliot Goldenthal:
Performer
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Boland Returns (Kitty's Waltz)
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Elliot Goldenthal:
Performer
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His Majesty's Finest
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Elliot Goldenthal:
Performer
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Boland's Death
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Elliot Goldenthal:
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Home To Cork
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Elliot Goldenthal:
Performer
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Civil War (Sinead O'Connor)
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Elliot Goldenthal:
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Collins' Proposal
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Elliot Goldenthal:
Performer
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An Anthem Deferred
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Elliot Goldenthal:
Performer
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She Moved Through The Fair (Sinead O'Connor)
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Elliot Goldenthal:
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Funeral/Coda
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Elliot Goldenthal:
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Macushla (Frank Patterson / The Cafe Orchestra)
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Elliot Goldenthal:
Performer
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Easter Rebellion (Sinead O'Connor)
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Elliot Goldenthal:
Performer
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Boland Returns (Kitty's Waltz)
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Elliot Goldenthal:
Performer
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His Majesty's Finest
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Elliot Goldenthal:
Performer
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Boland's Death
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Elliot Goldenthal:
Performer
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Civil War (Sinead O'Connor)
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Elliot Goldenthal:
Performer
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Collins' Proposal
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Elliot Goldenthal:
Performer
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She Moved Through The Fair (Sinead O'Connor)
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Elliot Goldenthal:
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