A Review of Three Irish War Movies

A commentary on three recommended Irish War Movies.

[@djbillybopdjbillybop2817]

Michael Hogan who was shot and killed, played for Tipperary his Jersey is on Display in my Hometown Clonmel at the Tipperary Museum of Hidden History.

[@jedi_yt365]

Your channel is incredibly underrated, and yet you make high quality and great videos, keep up the great work!

[@JohnnyJohnsonHistory]

Thanks man I really appreciate it

[@louielamlouie]

I've watched all three movies. The wind that shakes the barley really touches my heart!! All three of them are very good movies.

[@bobapbob5812]

All three are excellent. Especially Michael Collins who supported Irish Identity as linked to Celtic language and culture and not religion.

[@philiporeillycork]

All are great movies. The tactics used by the Irish soldiers at Jadotville are still taught today by several armies around the world on how to dig in and fortify a position.

[@HollywoodMarine0351]

Three well made, and entertaining movies. Thanks for sharing. Sláinte! 🇮🇪

[@probablylarsulrich5654]

Michael Collins is the best. That being said, the other 2 films are also amazing, and I wish that Ireland would make more war movies. I'd love to see an Irish film about the Fenians who fought the British and later the Confederates in the U.S. Civil War, or the rebellion in the early 1700s with Wolfe Tones, or maybe one with Roger Casement working with a shipment of WW1 German rifles. There's so much material they can go off.

[@iexist8293]

Michael Collins is a good film overall but very historically inaccurate particularly about Eamon De Valera.

[@RB-NZ2]

@@iexist8293I know people take Concerns with the film and how it hints that de Valera had a part in Collins’ death but really it’s not that far fetched. De Valera was 100% aware of it and didn’t do anything to stop it and only after he felt regret, but they wanted a whole Hollywood feel to the film with some of the performances and plot points.

[@Laufer88]

I would also recommend miniseries "Rebel heart" from 2001. with James D'Arcy. Really good series!

[@Highice007]

Good films. Although well made I thought "The Wind that Shakes the Barley" was unfair to Micheal Collins side. If the War was all about self determination, which it was, the Ulster counties who were majority protestant, had no desire to be a minority in what was at the time, going to be a defacto Catholic state. They could have pushed for a referendum to have Northern Ireland to unify later, but with assurances. Collins knew this, and that makes him the hero to me. I think had be lived, he would have driven the Republic of Ireland in a much more secular direction, while still remaining a devout Catholic on a personal level.

[@fergussunderland4955]

The wind that shakes the barley is probably my favourite movie. The story is excellent and just the dialogue and action seem very authentic not a hint of Hollywood to it.

[@letsgobs4933]

Three good ones! Others about more recent (Northern) Irish history are "71 and Bloody Sunday.

[@scottjock]

One of my favourite movies. Love Ireland north and south and the Irish people. However, could we please have something, somewhere, somehow that shows the future and present of Ireland. How about the tiger economy years or how fantastic Ireland is to visit currently or how it's apparently doing in the EU. Its always war and oppresion. I'm sure the many Irish people I have met and known are sick of being reminded and even defined by the past. Stay safe.

[@rudithedog7534]

Yes but this is a war movie channel

[@user-qj6wj5kz3x]

We are not doing to good in the EU thanks

[@pauldelaney5990]

The Treaty (1991 RTE ) covers the negotiations for the peace of 1921. Available on KZbin

[@victorocallaghan6791]

I'm from near Coolea where the wind the shakes the barley was filmed. A big buzz around the place that time. Michael Collins was better. The ambush site of Michael Collins and the Kilmichael Ambush which is depicted in the wind the shakes the barley all took place in my locality😊

[@Ryan_hey]

I did feel Michael Collins was more entertaining, but it also had 3 times the budget. Regardless, excellent film. However, The Wind That Shakes the Barley was more compelling for many. The dialogue and perspective it brought (which was the exact opposite of Michael Collin's pro-treaty) really made you think about where you would side in the conflict.

[@carlteacherman194]

@@Ryan_hey The "Wind that Shakes the Barley" is a brutal shock to those who didn't (and many still don't) know what happened in Ireland. History taught in non-Irish schools is woefully inadequate and biased. All my older students have studied this film. And of course the great hook is Cillian Murphy.

[@gooraway1]

Well chosen movies and informed critic

[@JohnnyJohnsonHistory]

Thanks as always Martin. I always appreciate your feedback and support 🙏

[@gooraway1]

@@JohnnyJohnsonHistory Johnny the "Siege at Jadotville' shows the Bren being used as a sniper rifle. The boys on the 'Fighting on Film' podcast said this was something peculiar to the Irish Army. Raising this as an item of interest no pressure to redo the Bren video. :)

[@info-peace]

Holy cow now I know what you look like now Is this another new channel? Was recommended

[@JohnnyJohnsonHistory]

Hey buddy. Yah I'm moving all my "movie reviews" to this channel and keeping my military vehicles/weapons/tactics on the other channel. So I will have two movie clip channels and two monetized channels.

[@info-peace]

Did they recommend this cause I was watching don’t insult my intelligence Kirk on one of my channels Film major

[@Caomhmc]

Michael Collins, the Irish Revolutionary, who inspired resistence groups all over the world. He also was secretly trying to get both pro - Treaty and Anti IRA forces, to join each other and take the fight to the 6 counties in an attempt to take them back, after the treaty with 6 counties in the north of Island would be Controlled by the british. He knew in the 6 counties, the settler residence and local government in the province the 6 counties of ulster, were nothing but discriminatory and Secterian towards Irish nationalist community. Plans fell through and he's was assassinated for it. By his own Irish comrades. Had the Anti-Treaty had some patience and control, we would had a chance at 32 county Sovereign, Irish Republic. 🇮🇪

[@HerrKurt]

I like Michael Collins movie as one of best MICKS war movie

[@homebusiness8166]

What will the movies be like in Ireland new Civil War?

[@noeltorres9175]

😎 freedom!!!!!!!!!!!!! 🇬🇧😭

[@JohnnyJohnsonHistory]

My man Noel with the support

[@noeltorres9175]

@@JohnnyJohnsonHistory 🇺🇲🤠👍

[@ColinH1973]

'The Wind That Shakes The Blankets' was just so much hot air.

[@rob5944]

The problem we have in the UK is that part of Northern Ireland is unionist and part republican. Since the Good Friday agreement a generation has grown up apparently free of the troubles and seemingly disinterested in that aspect of politics.... Thankfully! Let's all hope it stays that way, for all those fallen and affected by the Irish issue (if I may call it that) they suffering will not have been in vain.

[@garryjones2609]

The only good thing about wars is, "There is money to be made out of it."

[@lordemed1]

No one does hate quite like the Irish.