1 00:00:00,399 --> 00:00:03,099 What are you talking about? Broy wasn't out. 2 00:00:04,100 --> 00:00:06,019 They lifted him at Vaughan's. 3 00:00:09,271 --> 00:00:10,731 What was he doing? 4 00:00:11,732 --> 00:00:13,734 Oh, sweet mother of Jesus. 5 00:03:06,930 --> 00:03:08,972 Can't risk it any longer, Mick. 6 00:03:10,099 --> 00:03:11,892 Who'll give in first, Joe? 7 00:03:12,059 --> 00:03:13,394 Us or them? 8 00:03:15,270 --> 00:03:17,063 The body or the lash? 9 00:03:32,786 --> 00:03:34,620 You look like a gangster! 10 00:03:35,162 --> 00:03:37,164 You look like a ghost! 11 00:03:37,873 --> 00:03:39,417 Welcome back, Harry! 12 00:03:39,875 --> 00:03:41,252 How are you keeping? 13 00:03:41,335 --> 00:03:42,795 Grand. 14 00:03:45,338 --> 00:03:47,048 You're famous over there. 15 00:03:47,132 --> 00:03:48,258 Where? 16 00:03:48,883 --> 00:03:50,719 Over there, you thick. 17 00:03:51,344 --> 00:03:53,178 So, how was America? 18 00:03:54,638 --> 00:03:55,639 Great. 19 00:03:57,641 --> 00:03:59,977 Dev never got to meet the President. 20 00:04:00,644 --> 00:04:02,353 I didn't think he would. 21 00:04:09,068 --> 00:04:10,277 How are you? 22 00:04:11,194 --> 00:04:12,738 I'm grand. 23 00:04:20,161 --> 00:04:21,704 Welcome back, chief. 24 00:04:29,586 --> 00:04:31,921 The Big Fella sends his regards. 25 00:04:37,509 --> 00:04:39,845 We'll see who is the big fella. 26 00:04:43,849 --> 00:04:45,434 Apologies, gentlemen. 27 00:05:09,705 --> 00:05:12,041 As you may know... 28 00:05:15,710 --> 00:05:20,256 we have had some communication from the British side. 29 00:05:21,799 --> 00:05:24,885 There is a slim possibility... 30 00:05:26,053 --> 00:05:28,347 that they might want to talk. 31 00:05:31,432 --> 00:05:32,892 But our... 32 00:05:34,811 --> 00:05:36,145 tactics... 33 00:05:38,064 --> 00:05:42,150 allowed the British press to paint us as murderers. 34 00:05:44,736 --> 00:05:48,240 If we are to negotiate as a legitimate government... 35 00:05:48,365 --> 00:05:50,741 our armed forces must act... 36 00:05:50,908 --> 00:05:53,452 like a legitimate army. 37 00:05:57,248 --> 00:06:00,000 What exactly do you mean, Dev? 38 00:06:01,167 --> 00:06:04,087 I mean large-scale engagements. 39 00:06:06,172 --> 00:06:08,382 You mean, like in 1916? 40 00:06:10,092 --> 00:06:12,845 The great heroic ethic of failure... 41 00:06:13,595 --> 00:06:16,389 marching to slaughter. 42 00:06:17,181 --> 00:06:19,851 Why don't we save them the bother and blow our own brains out? 43 00:06:19,934 --> 00:06:21,102 How dare you! 44 00:06:21,185 --> 00:06:23,104 How did we get them to this point... 45 00:06:23,187 --> 00:06:24,855 to consider talking? 46 00:06:24,938 --> 00:06:28,025 We brought them to their knees the only way we could! 47 00:06:28,108 --> 00:06:29,776 They call us... 48 00:06:29,943 --> 00:06:31,278 murderers. 49 00:06:31,403 --> 00:06:33,696 War is murder! Sheer, bloody murder! 50 00:06:33,946 --> 00:06:36,949 Had you been here the past year, you'd know that! 51 00:06:44,622 --> 00:06:46,875 I propose an assault... 52 00:06:47,042 --> 00:06:51,420 on the administrative center of British rule in lreland: 53 00:06:56,967 --> 00:06:58,969 The Customs House. 54 00:07:02,889 --> 00:07:05,808 Ashes to ashes, dust to dust. 55 00:07:08,894 --> 00:07:10,062 How many lost? 56 00:07:10,145 --> 00:07:13,648 6 dead, 70 taken! Bloody fiasco! 57 00:07:14,232 --> 00:07:15,817 Christ, not again! 58 00:07:32,832 --> 00:07:34,000 The guns! 59 00:07:34,167 --> 00:07:35,751 We need the guns! 60 00:07:35,918 --> 00:07:37,252 Leave them! 61 00:08:17,372 --> 00:08:19,290 There's nothing we can do. 62 00:08:20,874 --> 00:08:22,668 There's nothing we can do. 63 00:08:24,712 --> 00:08:27,214 How much longer can we hold out? 64 00:08:31,134 --> 00:08:33,594 Four weeks. But keep it a secret. 65 00:08:33,803 --> 00:08:35,388 As little as that? 66 00:08:35,513 --> 00:08:37,432 Unless we use bows and arrows. 67 00:08:37,515 --> 00:08:40,058 Don't be flippant, Michael. 68 00:08:42,728 --> 00:08:45,147 We nearly lost 80 men last week, Dev. 69 00:08:46,815 --> 00:08:48,357 You tell him, Harry. 70 00:08:55,906 --> 00:08:57,365 He's right, chief. 71 00:09:00,452 --> 00:09:01,995 I lied. 72 00:09:02,912 --> 00:09:05,081 You lied? About what? 73 00:09:05,539 --> 00:09:08,083 We can't hold out for another week. 74 00:09:10,544 --> 00:09:12,338 Christ! Do they know that? 75 00:09:12,463 --> 00:09:14,006 Nobody knows. 76 00:09:14,547 --> 00:09:16,466 Mick, Dev's negotiating. 77 00:09:16,632 --> 00:09:18,926 Yes, so he doesn't know either. 78 00:09:19,260 --> 00:09:21,554 It's very important he doesn't know. 79 00:09:21,846 --> 00:09:24,348 The world must believe we're invincible. 80 00:09:24,473 --> 00:09:26,266 Maybe then we can talk. 81 00:09:28,644 --> 00:09:30,562 Jesus Christ. 82 00:09:33,272 --> 00:09:34,774 Kitty's down. 83 00:09:37,109 --> 00:09:38,569 So I heard. 84 00:09:41,488 --> 00:09:44,282 Is she down to see you or me? 85 00:09:44,449 --> 00:09:46,201 Maybe both of us. 86 00:09:47,786 --> 00:09:50,579 You take her down to Kingstown. Get some sea air. 87 00:09:50,663 --> 00:09:52,373 No, why don't you take her? 88 00:09:52,456 --> 00:09:54,291 No, you take her. 89 00:09:54,958 --> 00:09:57,044 - No, you take her. - No, you do. 90 00:10:00,880 --> 00:10:04,217 A horse called "Irish Republic" ran at Donnybrook today. 91 00:10:04,467 --> 00:10:06,219 What were the odds? 92 00:10:06,386 --> 00:10:09,304 - 50-to-1. - Jesus, some odds, what? 93 00:10:10,806 --> 00:10:14,393 There's 100,000 Tommies here and not 2,000 of us. 94 00:10:14,518 --> 00:10:17,395 I'd say 50-to-1 is optimistic. 95 00:10:17,687 --> 00:10:19,480 Optimistic or no... 96 00:10:19,605 --> 00:10:20,731 she won. 97 00:10:20,815 --> 00:10:22,316 No, you're joking? 98 00:10:23,150 --> 00:10:26,236 10 bob each way, that makes �25... 99 00:10:26,403 --> 00:10:28,822 plus the place money, �7,10. 100 00:10:28,989 --> 00:10:30,323 So I won... 101 00:10:30,490 --> 00:10:33,159 �33,10, thank you very much. 102 00:10:33,910 --> 00:10:36,537 Let the Irish Republic buy us dinner. 103 00:10:36,704 --> 00:10:39,164 I know just where to go. 104 00:10:55,846 --> 00:10:58,265 Which one of you will ask me to dance? 105 00:10:58,432 --> 00:11:00,475 - Me, me, me, please! - No, I will. I will. 106 00:11:00,559 --> 00:11:03,019 Heads, it's Harry. Tails, it's Mick. 107 00:11:05,855 --> 00:11:09,859 - Kitty, may I have the pleasure? - The gangster wins again. 108 00:11:10,109 --> 00:11:11,735 Watch his feet, Kitty. 109 00:11:11,860 --> 00:11:13,278 Shut up, you. 110 00:11:17,282 --> 00:11:19,575 I shouldn't have left, should I? 111 00:11:19,742 --> 00:11:20,951 Why not? 112 00:11:22,119 --> 00:11:23,954 I was a length ahead. 113 00:11:24,121 --> 00:11:25,456 Now where am I? 114 00:11:25,956 --> 00:11:27,666 It's not a race, Harry. 115 00:11:31,377 --> 00:11:33,755 Mind telling me what it is, then? 116 00:11:35,882 --> 00:11:37,382 You without him... 117 00:11:37,591 --> 00:11:39,134 him without you... 118 00:11:39,760 --> 00:11:41,386 l can't imagine it. 119 00:11:42,387 --> 00:11:44,139 Three-legged race. 120 00:11:59,402 --> 00:12:01,488 Mick, where the hell have you been? 121 00:12:01,571 --> 00:12:05,157 For God's sake, give me one free night to be a human being! 122 00:12:05,324 --> 00:12:07,409 We looked all over! Have you heard? 123 00:12:07,493 --> 00:12:08,911 No, I haven't heard! 124 00:12:08,994 --> 00:12:12,997 Would the bloody Irish Republic leave me some time off? 125 00:12:13,164 --> 00:12:14,499 It's over! 126 00:12:15,416 --> 00:12:16,793 What's over? 127 00:12:17,085 --> 00:12:18,211 It's over. 128 00:12:18,503 --> 00:12:20,171 They called a truce. 129 00:12:24,633 --> 00:12:25,926 It's finished? 130 00:12:26,093 --> 00:12:28,095 - The whole damn thing. - Yes. 131 00:12:29,179 --> 00:12:30,597 We've won? 132 00:12:30,722 --> 00:12:33,265 Lloyd George has thrown in the towel? 133 00:12:34,350 --> 00:12:37,937 We've brought the British Empire to its knees? 134 00:12:38,270 --> 00:12:39,271 Yes. 135 00:12:40,939 --> 00:12:43,733 Why the fuck didn't you say so? 136 00:12:50,447 --> 00:12:52,449 What was that horse called? 137 00:12:58,830 --> 00:13:01,165 We did it! We did it! It's a truce! 138 00:13:19,557 --> 00:13:20,474 What? 139 00:13:22,393 --> 00:13:24,477 You must be joking? 140 00:13:26,229 --> 00:13:27,981 No. I won't do it. 141 00:13:28,398 --> 00:13:31,318 I'm not a politician. I'm not going to London. 142 00:13:31,568 --> 00:13:34,236 You're the strongest card we have. 143 00:13:35,487 --> 00:13:38,866 They call me an assassin and a murderer! 144 00:13:39,074 --> 00:13:41,410 Will Churchill even shake my hand? 145 00:13:41,577 --> 00:13:44,662 We've broached it and had no objections. 146 00:13:45,163 --> 00:13:46,581 You go, Dev. 147 00:13:46,706 --> 00:13:48,583 You're the statesman. 148 00:13:48,708 --> 00:13:51,877 You know how far we can push them. They know you. 149 00:13:52,085 --> 00:13:55,339 That's the point. They don't know you. 150 00:14:00,801 --> 00:14:03,346 Don't do this to me, Dev. Don't do it. 151 00:14:04,180 --> 00:14:07,600 I'm no good at talk. I'm a yob from West Cork. 152 00:14:07,725 --> 00:14:08,893 Please! 153 00:14:09,101 --> 00:14:12,354 You'll head our team, Michael... 154 00:14:13,521 --> 00:14:17,359 to negotiate a treaty for the first time in history... 155 00:14:17,525 --> 00:14:19,818 between lreland and England. 156 00:14:22,029 --> 00:14:25,741 We need to keep a final arbitrator in reserve. 157 00:14:25,908 --> 00:14:27,034 You. 158 00:14:27,742 --> 00:14:31,037 That will be the Irish people. 159 00:14:33,539 --> 00:14:35,041 And me... 160 00:14:35,541 --> 00:14:38,835 as president of the Irish Republic. 161 00:14:40,295 --> 00:14:42,047 Why does he want me there? 162 00:14:42,130 --> 00:14:43,131 Why? 163 00:14:43,298 --> 00:14:46,634 - You put the fear of God into them. - Save me the bullshit. 164 00:14:46,759 --> 00:14:50,471 Mick, you are the strongest card we have. 165 00:14:51,389 --> 00:14:52,723 What's he up to? 166 00:14:54,849 --> 00:14:56,977 - What are you talking about? - I have one simple asset. 167 00:14:57,060 --> 00:14:59,813 All these years, no one knows what I look like. 168 00:15:09,238 --> 00:15:11,323 Which one of you is Michael Collins? 169 00:15:11,407 --> 00:15:12,573 He is. 170 00:15:13,491 --> 00:15:14,659 That's him. 171 00:15:15,493 --> 00:15:16,869 The small fella. 172 00:15:32,758 --> 00:15:37,263 "From your very own plenipotentiary, to the provisions of the said document... 173 00:15:37,430 --> 00:15:40,890 "hereinafter to be referred to as The Letter: 174 00:15:41,808 --> 00:15:44,019 "They didn't defeat us by force of arms... 175 00:15:44,102 --> 00:15:47,272 "but now they'll try to do it by force of verbiage. 176 00:15:47,439 --> 00:15:50,733 "The English language wasn't meant to be spoken like that. 177 00:15:50,816 --> 00:15:54,278 "How did these people ever get to run an empire?" 178 00:16:01,451 --> 00:16:02,535 Don't. 179 00:16:03,286 --> 00:16:04,454 Why not? 180 00:16:05,912 --> 00:16:07,623 'Cause you'll get hurt. 181 00:16:08,874 --> 00:16:10,375 How will I get hurt? 182 00:16:16,797 --> 00:16:18,382 I'm in love with him. 183 00:16:25,305 --> 00:16:26,640 I'm sorry. 184 00:16:27,307 --> 00:16:28,934 I have to tell you. 185 00:16:33,896 --> 00:16:35,397 Have you told him? 186 00:16:38,651 --> 00:16:39,652 No. 187 00:16:42,570 --> 00:16:44,238 And maybe I never will. 188 00:16:47,325 --> 00:16:50,036 I'm only telling you because I can't hurt you. 189 00:16:58,252 --> 00:16:59,585 Lucky Mick. 190 00:17:22,940 --> 00:17:26,526 I did my best, Kitty, but it won't be good enough. 191 00:17:29,195 --> 00:17:32,282 We'll have an Irish Free State, instead of an Irish Republic. 192 00:17:32,365 --> 00:17:34,367 We'll have our own government. 193 00:17:34,701 --> 00:17:37,786 But we have to swear allegiance to the English Crown. 194 00:17:38,203 --> 00:17:40,289 The position of the north will be reviewed... 195 00:17:40,372 --> 00:17:43,542 but now it remains part of the British Empire. 196 00:17:43,791 --> 00:17:46,210 This treaty isjust a steppingstone. 197 00:17:46,377 --> 00:17:48,713 I hope the country sees it as such. 198 00:17:50,631 --> 00:17:51,841 How are you? 199 00:17:55,552 --> 00:17:57,721 Is this true? 200 00:18:01,974 --> 00:18:04,226 It's the best anyone could have got. 201 00:18:05,978 --> 00:18:07,771 This gives up the north... 202 00:18:08,314 --> 00:18:10,024 divides the country. 203 00:18:10,399 --> 00:18:14,152 You expect us to give an oath of allegiance to the Crown? 204 00:18:14,319 --> 00:18:16,988 They can't comprehend giving us the Republic. 205 00:18:17,155 --> 00:18:19,240 And that's why Dev sent me. 206 00:18:20,407 --> 00:18:21,408 What? 207 00:18:21,575 --> 00:18:23,744 He knew we'd get no Republic. 208 00:18:23,911 --> 00:18:26,496 He wanted me to bring back the bad news. 209 00:18:26,914 --> 00:18:31,667 We can use the Irish Free State to achieve the Republic we want. 210 00:18:31,834 --> 00:18:33,669 It's either this or war. 211 00:18:33,920 --> 00:18:36,505 I won't go to war over words. 212 00:18:37,756 --> 00:18:40,508 What if it's war either way, Mick? 213 00:18:42,177 --> 00:18:46,264 You published the terms without my agreement! 214 00:18:47,431 --> 00:18:50,351 - They were the best we could get. - In your opinion! 215 00:18:50,434 --> 00:18:54,355 You sent me there knowing they were the best we'd get. 216 00:18:54,855 --> 00:18:57,190 - Idle speculation. - No, it's the truth. 217 00:18:57,273 --> 00:18:59,442 Or else you'd have gone yourself. 218 00:18:59,609 --> 00:19:01,444 We don't have the Republic... 219 00:19:01,527 --> 00:19:04,780 but freedom to achieve it. Peacefully. 220 00:19:04,947 --> 00:19:07,199 Surely it's time for peace. 221 00:19:08,617 --> 00:19:11,703 What would you know about peace? 222 00:19:16,457 --> 00:19:20,086 You said we could negotiate on behalf of our government... 223 00:19:20,294 --> 00:19:23,213 the D il and the Irish people. 224 00:19:24,631 --> 00:19:26,800 If they reject it, I'll reject it. 225 00:19:27,092 --> 00:19:30,095 If they stand by it, I'll stand by it. 226 00:19:30,470 --> 00:19:32,638 I want to know you'll do the same. 227 00:20:24,018 --> 00:20:25,935 Will you come in for a pint? 228 00:20:48,789 --> 00:20:50,374 He's read the papers. 229 00:21:07,181 --> 00:21:09,058 Say something, would you? 230 00:21:13,061 --> 00:21:15,897 I've known the two of you for four years. 231 00:21:17,398 --> 00:21:21,318 You've slept together, lived together, fought together. 232 00:21:22,986 --> 00:21:24,738 But your war is over now. 233 00:21:28,491 --> 00:21:30,576 What if it's just the beginning? 234 00:21:33,746 --> 00:21:34,747 Christ. 235 00:21:34,914 --> 00:21:36,915 I'd be better off in Longford. 236 00:22:13,322 --> 00:22:15,866 We were elected by the people of lreland... 237 00:22:15,950 --> 00:22:17,952 We were elected by the people. 238 00:22:18,160 --> 00:22:22,706 Did they think we were liars when we meant to uphold the Irish Republic? 239 00:22:25,041 --> 00:22:28,587 The letters preceding the negotiations... 240 00:22:28,795 --> 00:22:32,590 not once demanded recognition of the Irish Republic! 241 00:22:33,048 --> 00:22:36,176 We knew it would have been refused! 242 00:22:36,468 --> 00:22:38,596 So Mr. Collins is asking us... 243 00:22:38,804 --> 00:22:42,181 to accept an oath of allegiance to a foreign king... 244 00:22:42,557 --> 00:22:44,267 and the partition... 245 00:22:45,351 --> 00:22:48,604 and the partition of the northern part of the country! 246 00:22:48,979 --> 00:22:52,566 Mr. Collins, the man who won the recent war... 247 00:22:54,568 --> 00:22:56,903 has himself described the treaty... 248 00:22:57,069 --> 00:22:59,989 as a steppingstone toward the ultimate freedom! 249 00:23:02,074 --> 00:23:06,995 Mr. Griffith has described Mr. Collins as the man who won the war! 250 00:23:11,583 --> 00:23:13,501 Point of order, Mr. Chairman. 251 00:23:13,627 --> 00:23:15,836 Are we discussing the treaty or myself? 252 00:23:15,920 --> 00:23:18,005 The minister does not like what I say! 253 00:23:18,088 --> 00:23:19,840 Anything about me, say it! 254 00:23:19,924 --> 00:23:22,593 Mr. Collins, your position in the army... 255 00:23:22,760 --> 00:23:25,595 was as chief of one subsection. 256 00:23:28,598 --> 00:23:31,100 Nobody sought notoriety except you! 257 00:23:31,226 --> 00:23:33,018 Come on, Cathal! 258 00:23:33,143 --> 00:23:36,647 One person was held up by the press... 259 00:23:36,855 --> 00:23:39,608 and put into a position he never held. 260 00:23:39,858 --> 00:23:42,944 He was made a romantic figure... 261 00:23:45,071 --> 00:23:47,073 a mystical character... 262 00:23:47,156 --> 00:23:49,033 which he certainly is not! 263 00:23:49,116 --> 00:23:52,410 The person I refer to is Michael Collins! 264 00:24:06,257 --> 00:24:08,259 I would plead... 265 00:24:09,175 --> 00:24:10,969 with every person here. 266 00:24:12,053 --> 00:24:16,057 Make me a scapegoat, if you will. Call me a traitor, if you will. 267 00:24:16,975 --> 00:24:19,810 But please, let's save the country. 268 00:24:20,644 --> 00:24:23,689 The alternative to this treaty is a war... 269 00:24:24,356 --> 00:24:27,900 which nobody in this gathering can even contemplate. 270 00:24:28,901 --> 00:24:30,611 If the price of freedom... 271 00:24:30,695 --> 00:24:33,447 the price of peace, is blackening my name... 272 00:24:34,282 --> 00:24:36,074 l will gladly pay it. 273 00:24:39,202 --> 00:24:40,287 Thank you. 274 00:24:59,846 --> 00:25:02,306 The result, ladies and gentlemen... 275 00:25:02,472 --> 00:25:04,683 is 64 to 57. 276 00:25:06,184 --> 00:25:08,186 A majority of seven... 277 00:25:10,314 --> 00:25:12,231 in favor of the treaty. 278 00:25:30,331 --> 00:25:33,834 There is one thing I want to say. 279 00:25:38,880 --> 00:25:40,506 I want it to go... 280 00:25:41,633 --> 00:25:43,635 to the country... 281 00:25:44,344 --> 00:25:46,638 and to the world. 282 00:25:49,056 --> 00:25:50,724 And it is this: 283 00:25:53,435 --> 00:25:57,271 The Irish people established the Republic. 284 00:25:59,440 --> 00:26:01,067 It can only... 285 00:26:01,275 --> 00:26:03,903 be disestablished... 286 00:26:04,070 --> 00:26:06,279 by the Irish people. 287 00:26:13,911 --> 00:26:15,788 As a protest... 288 00:26:16,372 --> 00:26:19,667 against the ratification of this treaty... 289 00:26:19,792 --> 00:26:22,253 which can only subvert... 290 00:26:22,378 --> 00:26:24,003 the Republic... 291 00:26:27,382 --> 00:26:28,383 I... 292 00:26:28,550 --> 00:26:31,261 and my deputies... 293 00:26:31,386 --> 00:26:33,929 are leaving this house. 294 00:26:52,028 --> 00:26:53,280 Traitors! 295 00:26:53,405 --> 00:26:54,948 Traitors, all! 296 00:27:05,708 --> 00:27:07,126 Not you, Harry. 297 00:27:21,138 --> 00:27:22,723 All right, you've won. 298 00:27:26,225 --> 00:27:28,728 You always win, Mr. Collins. 299 00:27:29,520 --> 00:27:31,147 Rarely, Miss Kiernan. 300 00:27:31,314 --> 00:27:32,815 Very rarely. 301 00:27:34,441 --> 00:27:36,359 Jesus, I hate you. 302 00:27:37,319 --> 00:27:39,446 Sure. Join the club. 303 00:28:34,787 --> 00:28:37,121 You're seven minutes late, Mr. Collins. 304 00:28:37,205 --> 00:28:39,415 You've kept us waiting 700 years. 305 00:28:39,582 --> 00:28:41,668 You can have your seven minutes. 306 00:28:42,043 --> 00:28:44,045 Let's get this over with. 307 00:28:47,881 --> 00:28:50,384 Company, present arms! 308 00:29:17,449 --> 00:29:20,327 So that's what caused all the bother? 309 00:29:28,918 --> 00:29:30,086 Now what? 310 00:29:31,628 --> 00:29:33,422 Do I get to wear that hat? 311 00:29:39,844 --> 00:29:41,554 This treaty... 312 00:29:41,971 --> 00:29:44,640 bars the way to the Republic... 313 00:29:46,267 --> 00:29:47,810 with the blood... 314 00:29:48,476 --> 00:29:50,437 of fellow Irishmen! 315 00:29:58,861 --> 00:30:01,280 If it is only with civil war... 316 00:30:02,740 --> 00:30:05,451 that we can get our independence... 317 00:30:06,284 --> 00:30:08,286 then so be it! 318 00:30:27,303 --> 00:30:29,305 The Volunteers... 319 00:30:29,972 --> 00:30:33,225 will have to wade through Irish blood... 320 00:30:35,769 --> 00:30:40,232 through the blood of some members of this government... 321 00:30:40,774 --> 00:30:43,317 in order to get... 322 00:30:43,692 --> 00:30:45,611 Irish freedom! 323 00:30:51,407 --> 00:30:53,701 After 700 years.... 324 00:30:53,910 --> 00:30:55,787 After 700 years.... 325 00:31:13,177 --> 00:31:14,512 Let him speak! 326 00:31:14,637 --> 00:31:16,013 Kitty, don't! 327 00:31:16,180 --> 00:31:17,515 Leave him be! 328 00:31:19,349 --> 00:31:22,018 You put the heart across me, Kitty. 329 00:31:22,185 --> 00:31:24,229 I like the sound of your voice. 330 00:31:27,356 --> 00:31:29,316 They won't accept the treaty. 331 00:31:29,525 --> 00:31:31,193 No matter how the vote goes. 332 00:31:31,277 --> 00:31:33,279 You heard what de Valera said. 333 00:31:36,030 --> 00:31:39,033 "And to wade through rivers of blood..." 334 00:31:39,284 --> 00:31:41,578 And who's blood you think he's talking about? 335 00:31:41,661 --> 00:31:42,579 Yours. 336 00:31:42,745 --> 00:31:44,205 Will you marry me? 337 00:31:44,955 --> 00:31:45,956 Yeah. 338 00:31:50,210 --> 00:31:51,295 You will? 339 00:31:55,381 --> 00:31:56,966 It's that simple? 340 00:31:57,550 --> 00:31:58,551 Yeah. 341 00:33:11,282 --> 00:33:13,451 Who gave you that, you little runt? 342 00:33:15,536 --> 00:33:16,662 What's all this about? 343 00:33:16,745 --> 00:33:19,039 - We've taken over the Four Courts. - You fucking fool! 344 00:33:19,122 --> 00:33:20,040 Mind your language. 345 00:33:20,123 --> 00:33:21,834 You'll start a civil war! 346 00:33:21,917 --> 00:33:23,584 We'll defend the Republic. 347 00:33:23,668 --> 00:33:25,294 These kids don't know guns! 348 00:33:25,378 --> 00:33:28,047 - We know how to train them. - The way I trained you? 349 00:33:28,131 --> 00:33:30,591 - On whose orders? - The Volunteer Executive. 350 00:33:30,675 --> 00:33:32,175 Dev's part of it? 351 00:33:32,384 --> 00:33:33,677 His half of it? 352 00:33:34,761 --> 00:33:37,639 Go away home to your mothers, all of you! 353 00:33:42,393 --> 00:33:44,103 You know what this means? 354 00:33:44,186 --> 00:33:46,105 The army's split down the middle. 355 00:33:46,188 --> 00:33:48,315 - Who's in there? - Mellowes, Lynch... 356 00:33:48,399 --> 00:33:50,316 Tom Barry, Oscar Traynor. 357 00:34:02,870 --> 00:34:04,329 Keep it off. 358 00:34:05,080 --> 00:34:06,081 Why? 359 00:34:06,206 --> 00:34:08,708 There's a gunman outside by the railings. 360 00:34:09,208 --> 00:34:11,169 Jesus' sake. 361 00:34:12,211 --> 00:34:14,005 They won't shoot me, then. 362 00:34:17,215 --> 00:34:19,342 Jesus, what are you doing to me? 363 00:34:20,343 --> 00:34:22,345 They can shoot us, but they can't get us. 364 00:34:22,429 --> 00:34:24,723 - What are you talking about? - It's not possible. 365 00:34:24,806 --> 00:34:26,974 I'm going to live to see you old. 366 00:34:27,683 --> 00:34:29,185 I am old. 367 00:34:29,977 --> 00:34:32,104 Old enough to see your hair turn grey. 368 00:34:32,188 --> 00:34:34,522 I come from a long line of baldies. 369 00:34:34,731 --> 00:34:35,815 Bald, then. 370 00:34:35,899 --> 00:34:37,484 I can live with that. 371 00:34:40,528 --> 00:34:44,907 I will not fight against men I trained with, I fought with! 372 00:34:45,115 --> 00:34:49,620 The people have spoken for the treaty you brought home! 373 00:34:49,745 --> 00:34:53,372 They've occupied the Four Courts, Limerick, Cork. It's anarchy. 374 00:34:53,539 --> 00:34:55,166 Better anarchy than civil war! 375 00:34:55,249 --> 00:34:58,711 - Churchill offered artillery! - He can do his own dirty work! 376 00:34:59,128 --> 00:35:00,838 Maybe he will, Michael. 377 00:35:01,463 --> 00:35:02,714 Maybe he will. 378 00:35:12,848 --> 00:35:13,766 Stop! 379 00:35:13,933 --> 00:35:16,143 - It's not safe... - Do as you're told. 380 00:35:29,655 --> 00:35:32,282 Harry, talk to me, will you? 381 00:35:32,741 --> 00:35:34,159 I don't want any bullshit, Mick. 382 00:35:34,243 --> 00:35:35,577 Neither do l. 383 00:35:38,287 --> 00:35:39,789 Come upstairs. 384 00:35:52,050 --> 00:35:53,760 Is it true what I heard? 385 00:35:55,261 --> 00:35:56,679 You're engaged? 386 00:35:57,763 --> 00:35:59,890 Should I apologize for that, too? 387 00:36:00,891 --> 00:36:02,268 No, no, no. 388 00:36:02,685 --> 00:36:04,394 I'm happy for you both. 389 00:36:04,519 --> 00:36:06,354 Me arse. You don't look it. 390 00:36:06,437 --> 00:36:09,065 Maybe I don't, but I'm trying. 391 00:36:09,899 --> 00:36:12,193 Do you understand? I'm trying. 392 00:36:21,617 --> 00:36:23,619 I miss the way it used to be. 393 00:36:25,204 --> 00:36:26,330 Me too. 394 00:36:28,624 --> 00:36:30,917 I hear you're Dev's right-hand man. 395 00:36:32,210 --> 00:36:34,838 Well, I suppose that's how it goes. 396 00:36:36,465 --> 00:36:38,467 We were too dangerous together. 397 00:36:42,344 --> 00:36:44,305 Know the funny thing, Harry? 398 00:36:47,308 --> 00:36:49,851 For the first time in my life, I'm scared. 399 00:36:53,563 --> 00:36:55,482 The Big Fella, scared? 400 00:36:57,733 --> 00:37:01,111 I hate to say it, Mick, but you've a right to be. 401 00:37:02,321 --> 00:37:04,031 You don't understand me. 402 00:37:05,741 --> 00:37:08,367 You told me once I was good at bloody mayhem. 403 00:37:08,659 --> 00:37:09,660 Right. 404 00:37:09,827 --> 00:37:11,579 I left the Brits in the halfpenny place. 405 00:37:11,662 --> 00:37:14,415 That's what I'm scared of, because once I start... 406 00:37:14,499 --> 00:37:15,832 there'll be no stopping me. 407 00:37:19,044 --> 00:37:21,963 Don't let it start, then. 408 00:37:22,380 --> 00:37:23,882 Tear up that treaty. 409 00:37:28,135 --> 00:37:30,137 It's the only thing we've got. 410 00:37:31,972 --> 00:37:33,890 So, then it starts. 411 00:37:34,057 --> 00:37:35,058 What? 412 00:37:36,392 --> 00:37:37,977 We fight. 413 00:37:39,687 --> 00:37:41,523 They fight. We don't. 414 00:37:41,689 --> 00:37:44,441 You've said what you had to say and you can go now. 415 00:37:44,525 --> 00:37:47,152 Listen, you don't know what you're saying! 416 00:37:47,361 --> 00:37:49,863 I have nothing more to say to you! 417 00:37:53,282 --> 00:37:55,159 - Do it! - Put the gun down! 418 00:37:55,368 --> 00:37:57,620 Save us all a lot of bother. Do it! 419 00:37:57,912 --> 00:37:59,413 Put the gun down. 420 00:38:02,082 --> 00:38:05,418 Do you not hear me! I said put the gun down! 421 00:38:08,630 --> 00:38:09,672 Get out! 422 00:38:38,072 --> 00:38:39,907 - Do it! - Fire! 423 00:39:07,098 --> 00:39:09,309 How would you like a new boss, Joe? 424 00:40:41,140 --> 00:40:42,683 Check the other side. 425 00:40:50,189 --> 00:40:51,441 What happened? 426 00:40:59,823 --> 00:41:03,493 They shot their way to the Catacombs. He thinks Harry was with them. 427 00:41:03,577 --> 00:41:05,787 - Let's go. - Mick, it's not safe! 428 00:41:05,996 --> 00:41:07,706 We'll never get through! 429 00:41:37,023 --> 00:41:38,024 Stop! 430 00:41:38,191 --> 00:41:39,275 Stop! 431 00:42:07,258 --> 00:42:08,718 Come on! Come on! 432 00:43:22,908 --> 00:43:25,453 Calm down! It's the Big Fella! 433 00:43:36,588 --> 00:43:37,839 What happened? 434 00:43:40,132 --> 00:43:41,467 Who closed your eyes? 435 00:43:41,550 --> 00:43:44,845 He tried to run across the river, sir. I plugged him. 436 00:43:45,012 --> 00:43:47,306 I didn't ask you. I asked him. 437 00:43:47,681 --> 00:43:49,015 You asked who? 438 00:43:49,182 --> 00:43:51,142 I fucking asked him! 439 00:43:51,309 --> 00:43:54,103 - But he's dead, sir. - And you killed him, you little git! 440 00:43:54,187 --> 00:43:56,731 You plugged him, you Free State gob-shite! 441 00:43:57,356 --> 00:43:59,149 - You were meant to protect him! - He was one of them, sir! 442 00:43:59,232 --> 00:44:01,359 No, sonny! You don't understand. 443 00:44:02,652 --> 00:44:04,279 He was one of us. 444 00:44:05,947 --> 00:44:06,947 Go on! 445 00:44:07,156 --> 00:44:09,116 Back to your posts. 446 00:44:18,041 --> 00:44:21,044 The papers said his last words were: 447 00:44:22,629 --> 00:44:24,755 "Have they got Mick Collins yet?" 448 00:44:25,547 --> 00:44:27,508 You know it's not true, Mick. 449 00:44:30,344 --> 00:44:33,013 I don't know anything, anymore. 450 00:44:39,227 --> 00:44:42,479 Tell Dev Mick wants to talk. Nothing more, nothing less. 451 00:44:42,604 --> 00:44:44,064 Not in Dublin. 452 00:44:44,231 --> 00:44:45,482 Where, then? 453 00:44:45,649 --> 00:44:46,900 West Cork... 454 00:44:47,901 --> 00:44:49,319 there might be a chance. 455 00:44:49,403 --> 00:44:51,529 He'd never get out of there alive. 456 00:44:51,737 --> 00:44:53,155 Doesn't he come from there? 457 00:44:53,239 --> 00:44:55,032 That's bandit country. 458 00:44:55,199 --> 00:44:57,410 They're bandits he trained, aren't they? 459 00:44:57,535 --> 00:45:00,079 Maybe. But Mick doesn't know the new boys. 460 00:45:00,829 --> 00:45:03,206 He'll have to get to know them now. 461 00:45:06,042 --> 00:45:07,127 Gentlemen. 462 00:45:31,231 --> 00:45:32,232 What time is it? 463 00:45:32,357 --> 00:45:34,735 Seven. Have you been here all night? 464 00:45:35,068 --> 00:45:36,068 Any news? 465 00:45:36,193 --> 00:45:39,530 They say if you went to Cork there might be a possibility. 466 00:45:39,864 --> 00:45:40,781 Fuck! 467 00:45:42,032 --> 00:45:43,367 What do you think? 468 00:45:43,451 --> 00:45:47,454 We've cleared them out except for West Cork. 469 00:45:49,122 --> 00:45:51,666 They wouldn't kill me in my own county. 470 00:45:54,293 --> 00:45:56,503 How would you like a new boss, Joe? 471 00:45:57,963 --> 00:45:59,965 Still, be nice to go home. 472 00:46:02,634 --> 00:46:05,011 - You'd be crazy to go. - So, I'm crazy. 473 00:46:05,219 --> 00:46:07,138 Get the convoy together. 474 00:46:07,305 --> 00:46:08,389 Go on. 475 00:46:16,688 --> 00:46:18,648 - What? - Here. For the cough. 476 00:46:19,316 --> 00:46:21,108 Here. New handkerchief. 477 00:46:21,734 --> 00:46:25,738 Go on! You're like an old clucking hen, fussing all the time! 478 00:46:41,502 --> 00:46:43,087 Sweet suffering Jesus! 479 00:46:43,170 --> 00:46:45,381 If you're going down, I'm going too. 480 00:47:03,522 --> 00:47:05,273 That's where it all started, Joe. 481 00:47:05,357 --> 00:47:07,400 Fenian stories by the fireside. 482 00:47:07,483 --> 00:47:08,818 That's your home? 483 00:47:08,901 --> 00:47:10,820 Was, till the Tans burned it. 484 00:47:16,741 --> 00:47:18,368 What are you doing here, Mick? 485 00:47:18,451 --> 00:47:20,203 Haven't I a civil war to run? 486 00:47:20,286 --> 00:47:21,996 Come on! It's my round. 487 00:47:34,716 --> 00:47:37,635 Come to flog us that bloody treaty, have you? 488 00:47:38,177 --> 00:47:40,263 I'm flogging fuck-all. I've come to buy. 489 00:47:40,346 --> 00:47:42,264 Drinks for the county on me. 490 00:47:44,558 --> 00:47:46,226 Come on, four pints. 491 00:48:13,542 --> 00:48:14,793 Is it him? 492 00:48:16,503 --> 00:48:17,754 Looks like it. 493 00:48:19,172 --> 00:48:21,090 Looks like he wants to meet. 494 00:48:29,097 --> 00:48:30,849 Can I trust him? 495 00:48:31,600 --> 00:48:33,977 Can you trust anyone these days, chief? 496 00:48:57,289 --> 00:48:59,958 "Oh, well do I remember... 497 00:49:00,459 --> 00:49:01,876 "the year of '48 498 00:49:02,043 --> 00:49:04,837 "When I rose with comrades brave and true 499 00:49:08,257 --> 00:49:10,884 "l was hunted through the hills by slaves 500 00:49:11,051 --> 00:49:13,804 "Who served a foreign queen 501 00:49:14,596 --> 00:49:15,597 "And that's 502 00:49:15,722 --> 00:49:18,016 "Another reason why 503 00:49:18,308 --> 00:49:20,851 "I left old Skibereen" 504 00:49:31,069 --> 00:49:32,529 Say it to me, kid. 505 00:49:32,612 --> 00:49:34,030 Put it away, Joe. 506 00:49:34,406 --> 00:49:35,990 Who the fuck are you? 507 00:49:39,034 --> 00:49:40,828 Who the fuck am l? 508 00:49:43,038 --> 00:49:45,999 I'm the fucker that asked to meet Dev. 509 00:49:46,250 --> 00:49:47,625 And who's Dev? 510 00:49:47,792 --> 00:49:49,168 And who are you? 511 00:49:51,462 --> 00:49:54,340 If I did know this Dev, what would you say to him? 512 00:49:59,970 --> 00:50:01,054 Tell him... 513 00:50:01,179 --> 00:50:03,473 Harry Boland's death was enough. 514 00:50:05,182 --> 00:50:08,853 Tell him Mick Collins wants to stop this bloody mayhem. 515 00:50:11,355 --> 00:50:14,357 Tell him I'm sorry I didn't bring back the Republic. 516 00:50:14,524 --> 00:50:16,317 But nobody could have! 517 00:50:23,115 --> 00:50:25,492 He was my chief, always. 518 00:50:26,285 --> 00:50:29,038 I'd have followed him to hell if he'd asked me. 519 00:50:31,956 --> 00:50:33,499 And maybe I did. 520 00:50:40,297 --> 00:50:43,342 But it's not worth fighting for anymore. 521 00:50:45,510 --> 00:50:47,888 We've got to build with what we have! 522 00:50:49,055 --> 00:50:50,556 You tell him that. 523 00:50:53,809 --> 00:50:55,436 Where can he find you? 524 00:50:55,728 --> 00:50:56,729 Here. 525 00:51:15,704 --> 00:51:17,413 So, I take it you heard? 526 00:51:19,916 --> 00:51:21,709 Jesus, Mick. 527 00:51:25,128 --> 00:51:27,130 God forgive us, Harry. 528 00:51:27,714 --> 00:51:29,424 Have you got any reply? 529 00:51:37,056 --> 00:51:38,724 He's come all this way. 530 00:51:39,850 --> 00:51:41,977 Be rude not to give him an answer. 531 00:52:08,126 --> 00:52:09,043 Well? 532 00:52:09,584 --> 00:52:11,670 He says he'll meet you tomorrow. 533 00:52:12,045 --> 00:52:13,672 What's wrong with now? 534 00:52:14,381 --> 00:52:16,008 His nerves are at him. 535 00:52:17,342 --> 00:52:20,720 Beal Na Blath. A farmhouse to the left on the Bandon side. 536 00:52:21,929 --> 00:52:23,180 Around 12:00. 537 00:52:24,223 --> 00:52:27,351 Hey kid...what's your name? 538 00:52:32,105 --> 00:52:33,356 Little snot. 539 00:53:13,141 --> 00:53:14,559 Beal Na Blath? 540 00:53:59,474 --> 00:54:01,559 Should I ask them all to the wedding? 541 00:54:01,643 --> 00:54:03,186 Do you think that'd fix it? 542 00:54:03,269 --> 00:54:05,271 Be a big bloody wedding, Mick. 543 00:54:06,689 --> 00:54:09,984 We'll invite the whole country. Marital diplomacy. 544 00:54:10,567 --> 00:54:14,862 Dev as best man. Lloyd George, Winston Churchill as bridesmaids. 545 00:54:39,677 --> 00:54:40,761 What's up? 546 00:54:41,512 --> 00:54:42,762 We're stopped? 547 00:54:44,848 --> 00:54:45,932 Roadblock. 548 00:54:47,434 --> 00:54:48,518 Move it! 549 00:54:48,935 --> 00:54:50,894 Get those carts off the road! 550 00:54:57,276 --> 00:54:58,360 How long? 551 00:54:58,444 --> 00:54:59,610 Two minutes. 552 00:55:02,238 --> 00:55:04,782 Jeez, they're trying to fucking kill me. 553 00:55:04,907 --> 00:55:05,992 Get down! 554 00:55:21,130 --> 00:55:23,090 Give it to me! Get off! 555 00:55:57,996 --> 00:55:59,539 No! Jeez, Mick! 556 00:56:04,669 --> 00:56:06,128 Talk to me! 557 00:56:08,089 --> 00:56:09,548 Don't go! 558 00:56:09,715 --> 00:56:11,341 Don't go, Mick! 559 00:56:15,011 --> 00:56:17,973 Jesus, don't go on us, Mick! Please! 560 00:56:36,197 --> 00:56:37,448 Miss Kiernan? 561 00:56:48,332 --> 00:56:49,834 I'm sorry. 562 00:56:52,169 --> 00:56:53,838 I just heard. 563 00:56:55,381 --> 00:56:56,548 I'm sorry. 564 00:57:10,978 --> 00:57:12,855 That's why he died, Kitty. 565 00:57:13,355 --> 00:57:16,232 He knew the risk he was taking to go there. 566 00:57:17,150 --> 00:57:19,277 But he thought it worth taking. 567 00:57:21,362 --> 00:57:22,863 He took them for us. 568 00:57:22,946 --> 00:57:26,241 For every gob-shite in this country, no matter what side. 569 00:57:29,036 --> 00:57:31,495 If he saw you now, know what he'd say? 570 00:57:34,373 --> 00:57:38,961 "Get off the parliamentary side of your arse and get some color". 571 00:57:40,587 --> 00:57:42,714 He would have said it better, Joe. 572 00:57:44,841 --> 00:57:47,218 "No regrets, Kit". That's what he'd say.