Quote Originally Posted by slohairt View Post
Liam Neeson looked the part, though he was a bit old for the role, Michael Collins (Mícheál Ó Coileáin) was just shy of 26 during the 1916 uprising, and just shy of his 32nd birthday when he died in 1922. Alan Rickman was a bit old as well. Éamon de Valera (Éamon de Bhailéara) was 34 at the time of the Easter Uprising. Neeson and Rickman were 44 and 50 during the filming.

Julia Roberts 'accent' was terrible just like it was in Mary Reilly.
Collins was Minister of Finance in the Dáil Eireann, not Intelligence.
Arthur Griffith (Art Ó Griofa), founder of Sinn Féin, was leader of the delegation for the Anglo-Irish treaty, Collins was his deputy.
The links between Dev and Collins' assassination are a little questionable, to say the least.
The Irish Free State was formed on Dec. 6, 1922. About four months after Collins died. Northern Ireland had one month to opt out of the Act, which they did on Dec. 13.
I've always felt Kenneth Branagh bears a resemblance to Collins. He would have been a bit old for the part as well.

T.