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Tue 10 Oct 1996MICHAEL COLLINS
A chara - While I can understand why Eoghan Harris (October 12th), probably suffering from the sour grapes syndrome, takes Neil Jordan to task regarding historical inaccuracies in the latter's film Michael Collins, Harris himself is equally at fault. In his letter, he describes the ill treatment meted out to the elderly Fenian, Tom Clarke, as an alleged incident". Not so!
Over forty years ago, on different occasions, I spoke with two old 1916 men who, quite separately, described how Captain Lee Wilson severely molested the old man. Collins was furious, they said. He noted the petty tyrant well and, a few years later, he nailed him! - is mise,
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