Irish Republicanism as Reflected in Michael Collins and Bloody Sunday

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Irish Republicanism as Reflected in Michael Collins and Bloody Sunday
The way Irish revolutionists are portrayed in Neil Jordan’s film Michael Collins is fanciful and romanticized compared with the realistic style in which they’re shown in Paul
Greengrass’s
Bloody Sunday, and yet even the latter ends up being an essentially one-sided account of the Republican cause in Irish politics. Each film, in its way, attempts to justify the cause of Irish Republicanism, but whereas Bloody Sunday at least partly succeeds, thanks to its engagingly realistic, pseudo-documentary style of direction (and seeming neutrality), Michael Collins, an epic in the “traditional” style, resorts to clichés and myth-making and consequently fails to convince.
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