Talk:Michael Collins (film)

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Anyone know how much money the film made in total, or if it was a success internationally ? Wikipedia usually has an overall box office figure. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 89.101.208.7 (talk) 20:45, 7 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

• Michael Collins and Harry Boland were still friends at the time of Harry's death according to Dail Debate in which Harry Boland Calls Michael Collins his 'good friend'.In the movie they still talk to each just before Harry's innacurate death.This shows that in the movie they remained friends.I assume your line 'close friend-turned-enemy' is your own opinion and therefore should be removed.
• Give proof that Collins 'authored the controversial oath of allegiance'.
• 'the misrepresentation of some of the content of the Dáil debates on the Treaty (in particular the impression that the partition of Ireland comprised a major issue in the Dáil debates when in reality it received scant mention'.This a pointless statement because the issue was discused in the Dail in reality.
• 2 Footbalers were killed according to Bloody Sunday (1920).
• The fact that the Black'n'Tans killed 2 footballers 'and not half a team' is also a poorly made point as this act was still a cowardly act.The fact that they only killed 'a number',which by the way was 13,dosn't make a difference it was still a classicly disgraceful British act.This point is highly inaccurate,because as I already said 2 footballers were killed and not one as the article says,and should be removed all together.
• There is a far better chance that Collins was shot dead by irregulars considering the fact that they ambushed him and he was the only one to die.They then fled the scene after they killed Collins.This point could also do with being scrapped.--Fenian Swine 02:51, 27 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]
• "2 Footbalers were killed according to Bloody Sunday (1920)." This is not true. Michael Hogan and Jim Egan were hit by bullets. Hogan died, Egan survived. EamonnPKeane 18:06, 18 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• Removed the line "Collins' assertion that Irish people would be 'cannon fodder in the Somme' suggests conscription had been introduced. It had not, though it was certainly proposed."- it makes no sense and demonstrates a lack of understanding of the issue. The British (naturally) supported the John Redmond-led National Volunteer side in the split of the Irish Volunteers in 1914; The National Volunteers, Home Rule having been put on the books, called upon its ranks and all Volunteers to join the British Army during the First World War, while the Irish Volunteers movement stayed loyal to its cause of preserving Irish liberties, going on to provide many of the troops used in the Easter Rising. So, Collins, who remained an Irish Volunteer after the split, was merely pointing out that the Irishmen of the National Volunteers were off in the Somme (and Suvla and Sud El Bar), fighting for a country that was not their own.