TY - BOOK AU - Merivirta,Raita ED - ebrary, Inc. TI - The gun and Irish politics: examining national history in Neil Jordan's Michael Collins AV - DA965.C6 M3356 2009eb U1 - 941.5082/1B 22 PY - 2009/// CY - Bern, Switzerland, New York PB - Peter Lang KW - Collins, Michael, KW - Michael Collins (Motion picture) KW - Revolutionaries KW - Ireland KW - Biography KW - History KW - Easter Rising, 1916 KW - War of Independence, 1919-1921 KW - Civil War, 1922-1923 KW - In motion pictures KW - Electronic books KW - local N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction -- The untold story of Irish history -- Films and history -- Cinema and Ireland -- Neil Jordan and the film "like a national institution" -- The soldier : "everything's possible if you wish hard enough" -- 1916 Easter Rising : introducing the characters -- War of Independence -- The good, the bad and the heroic -- Michael Collins : a romantic national hero? -- The statesman : "I signed my death warrant" -- Collins versus De Valera -- The split -- The Civil War and the death of Collins -- Back to the future : a view of the 1990s -- Michael Collins : the lost leader -- Northern Ireland -- Irish national cinema and Hollywood; Electronic reproduction; Palo Alto, Calif.; ebrary; 2011; Available via World Wide Web; Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries UR - http://site.ebrary.com/lib/daystar/Doc?id=10600527 ER -