American Rhetoric: Movie Speech

"Michael Collins" (1996)

de Valera Takes the Case Against Treaty Ratification to the Irish People at Thurles

Video of Address delivered by Alan Rickman

This treaty bars the way to the Republic

With the blood of fellow Irishmen!

And if it is only with civil war that we can get our independence,

Then so be it!

The Volunteers will have to wade through Irish blood,

Through the blood of some members of this government,

In order to get Irish freedom!