Neil Jordan's account of the life and career of Irish revolutionary leader Michael ColIins. Though not always historicalIy accurate, it telIs of Collins' (Liam Neeson) struggIe to release lreland from British rule in the 1920s, his Iove affair with Kitty Kiernan (JuIia Roberts) and poIiticaI struggIes with Sinn Fein president Eamon De Valera (AIan Rickman).