Film Focus:
Michael Collins


Director: Neil Jordan
Cast: Liam Neeson, Aidan Quinn, Alan Rickman



Books About Michael Collins


The Big Fellow, by Frank O'Connor. Corgi, 1969.

Big Fellow, Long Fellow: A Joint Biography of Collins & de Valera, by T. Ryle Dwyer. St. Martin's, 1998.

Break the Green Bough: The Michael Collins Novel, by Padraic O'Farrell. Irish Books & Media, 1990.

The Day Michael Collins Was Shot, by Meda Ryan. DUFOR, 1990.

The Illustrated Life of Michael Collins, by Colm Connolly. Robert Rinehart, 1996.

In Great Haste: The Letters of Michael Collins & Kitty Kiernan, ed. by Leon O. Broin. St. Martin's, 1996.

The Man Who Made Ireland: The Life & Death of Michael Collins, by Tim Pat Coogan. Roberts Rinehart, 1992, 1990.

Michael Collins: A Life, by James A. Mackay. Mainstream, 1996.

Michael Collins: The Path to Freedom--Articles & Speeches by Michael Collins. Roberts Rinehart, 1996.

Michael Collins: The Secret File, ed. by A.T.Q. Stewart. Blackstaff, 1998.

Michael Collins and the Making of a New Ireland, P.S. Besalai. Periodical Service Co., 1985.

Michael Collins and the Making of the Irish State, ed. by Gabriel Doherty & Dermot Keogh. Irish Am. Book Co., 1998.

Michael Collins and the Women in His Life, by Meda Ryan. Irish Am. Book Co., 1998.

The Shooting of Michael Collins: Murder or Accident, by John M. Feehan. IABC, 1991.

A State of Disunion: Arthur Griffith, Michael Collins, James Craig, Eamonn de Valera. Calton Younger, 1972.

Further Reading

Agony at Easter: The Irish 1916 Uprising, by Thomas M. Coffey. Macmillan, 1969.

The Black and Tans, by Richard Bennett. Houghton Mifflin, 1960.

Cry Blood, Cry Erin, by Redmond Fitzgerald. C.N. Potter, 1966.

De Valera and the Ulster Question, 1917-1973, by John Bowman. Clarendon, 1982.

Dublin Castle and the 1916 Uprising, by Leon O'Broin. NY University Press, 1971.

Eamon de Valera, by Desmond MacNamara. Chelsea House, 1988.

Eamon de Valera: The Man Who Was Ireland, by Tim Pat Coogan. HarperCollins, 1995.

The Easter Rebellion, by Max Caulfield. Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1963.

The Easter Rising: Dublin 1916, the Irish Rebel Against British Rule, by Neil Grant. Watts, 1972.

The Easter Rising: Revolution and Irish Nationalism, by Alan J. Ward. Harlan Davidson, 1987, 1980.

A History of Northern Ireland, 1920-1996, by Thomas Hennessey. St, Martin's, 1997.

The Imagination of an Insurrection: Dublin, Easter, 1916--A Study of an Ideological Movement, by William Irwin Thompson. Oxford Univ. Press, 1967.

Ireland Since the Rising, by Timothy Patrick Coogan. Praeger, 1966.

Ireland's Civil War, by Calton Younger. Taplinger, 1968.

The Irish Republic: A Documented Chronicle of the Anglo-Irish Conflict and thr Partitioning of Ireland, with a Detailed Account of the Period 1916-23, by Dorothy Macardle. Corgi, 1968.

The Irish Uprising, 1916-1922, by Goddard Lieberson. Macmillan, 1966.

Leaders and Men of the Easter Rising: Dublin 1916, ed. by F. X. Martin. Cornell University Press, 1967.

The Life and Times of Eamon de Valera, by Constantine FitzGibbon. Macmillan, 1973.

Ourselves Alone: The Story of Arthur Griffith and the Origin of the Irish Free State, by Padraic Colum. Crown, 1959.

Out of the Lion's Paw: Ireland Wins Her Freedom, by Constantine FitzGibbon. American Heritage, 1969.

Protest in Arms: The Irish Troubles, 1916-1923, by Edgar Holt. Coward-McCann, 1961.

Rebels: The Irish Rising of 1916, by Peter De Rosa. Doubleday, 1990.

The Secret Army: The IRA, 1916-1970, by J. Bowyer Bell. John Day, 1971.

States of Ireland, by Conor Cruise O'Brien. Pantheon, 1973.

The Troubles: Ireland, 1912-1922, by Ulick O'Connor. Bobbs-Merrill, 1975.

The Wearing of the Green: The Irish Rebellion, 1916-21, by Clifford Lindsey Alderman. J. Messner, 1972.

Miscellaneous

Michael Collins: Screenplay and Film Diary, by Neil Jordan. Plume, 1996.


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