In the Shadow of the Gun - The Return Of Michael Collins - 1995

Biographical BBC documentary about Michael Collins. The Irish revolutionary, soldier and politician who was a leading figure in the early-20th-century Irish struggle for independence.

[@ratheanach5545]

It wasn't Collins who sent Ireland in the wrong direction, it was De Valera. Had he stood with Collins, there would have been no civil war, a united country and people, and the opportunity to set the scene for reunification. Dev destroyed all hope of that, and poisoned Irish politics for generations.

[@user-qg8qg2sp7i]

De Valera is a lunatic who ruined the Easter Rising 😢

[@jamesh6024]

@@user-qg8qg2sp7iAt best, Dev was an inept commander during the Rising. The overall failure of it can be attributed to any number of factors, none of which would be Dev.

[@lamalama9717]

​​@@jamesh6024putting maths teachers in charge of anything is usually a bad idea lol

[@denyseharrington889]

So true

[@tonyowens8462]

Without doubt

[@TraitofSiNN727]

in our family Michael Collins is a hero.
Éire go deo.

[@seanohare5488]

Very interesting informative historians laffan and Lee spot on Collins grandniece spoke well of Collins at the end as the legendary Tom Barry of West Cork said in 1966 at a Michael Collins commeration. No one inside or outside of Ireland did more than Michael Collins

[@judithmccrea2601]

700 years. The horrible oppression visited on the Irish at the hands of the English cannot be overstated. Unless, of course, you are a member of the Anglo-Irish ascendancy…

[@desjenkins2701]

MY GRANDFATHER HAD 3 LETTERS FROM MICHAEL COLLINS

[@lamalama9717]

What did he say?

[@1916jamesconnolly]

Cometh the Hour Cometh the Man. Collins was the right Man at the right time just like Churchill was for the British in 1939 and Field Marshall Zhukov was for the Russians. Collins Intelligence Network in Dublin Castle was the thing that gave him the edge and finally led to the Treaty. You can say he never pulled a Trigger himself as the Diehard Cathal Brugha accused him off in Dail but he didn't need to as his skill was in ordering the striking of the right Targets that would make the greatest impact in Downing Street.

[@lamalama9717]

I was just about to write something using the same phrasing and examples.

[@damienholden2132]

Collins would have got a United ireland with out a shadow of doubt I believe

[@billy-kr3xx]

What of the armed Loyalists?

[@averagejoe4932]

From a outsiders point of view I feel like the Irish should not have signed the treaty. Very good video. It deserves more views.

[@billy-kr3xx]

What choice did they have?

[@hirepgym6913]

Ernesto Guevara interesting because Che carried Micks book with him when he stood at Micks grave before he left for Bolivia

[@ThomasDohertyJD]

Nice Philip Glass intro music. From "Mishima."

[@deirdrenugent1887]

Dev set him up

[@patriciajones5247]

I feel some partiality in this documentary against Collins.

[@edwardduggan4878]

Yes me too

[@yerdone4]

Someone go wake him up again sort out these migrants ffs

[@denyseharrington889]

How I wish we could.

[@josemama428]

100%

[@paulferris2218]

Collins pulled the trigger on himself by the decision to become a lackey for the British

[@jody1367]

He pulled the trigger on himself by siding against his own. Much like the Sinn Fein of today.

[@martinrooney2806]

Killed by one on in his own companey