:14:08
Don't do this to me, Dev. Don't do it.
:14:11
I'm no good at talk.
I'm a yob from West Cork.
:14:15
Please!
:14:16
You'll head our team, Michael...
:14:21
...to negotiate a treaty
for the first time in history...
:14:25
...between Ireland and England.
:14:29
We need to keep
a final arbitrator in reserve.
:14:33
You.
:14:35
That will be the Irish people.
:14:41
And me...
:14:43
...as president of the Irish Republic.
:14:47
Why does he want me there?
:14:49
Why?
:14:50
-You put the fear of God into them.
-Save me the bullshit.
:14:54
Mick, you are the strongest card we have.
:14:58
What's he up to?
:15:02
-What are you talking about?
-I have one simple asset.
:15:04
All these years,
no one knows what I look like.
:15:16
Which one of you is Michael Collins?
:15:18
He is.
:15:21
That's him.
:15:23
The small fella.
:15:40
'From your very own plenipotentiary,
to the provisions of the said document...
:15:44
'... hereinafter to be referred to
as The Letter:
:15:49
'They didn't defeat us by force of arms...
:15:51
'... but now they'll try to
do it by force of verbiage.
:15:54
'The English language wasn't
meant to be spoken like that.
:15:58
'How did these people ever
get to run an empire?'