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...British rule, which was then being enforced by the Black and Tans, vicious and largely undisciplined soldiers recruited from the demobilized English army and functioning in Ireland as terrorist-enforcers of the status quo. Loach's film, written by Paul Laverty, focuses on a Sinn Fein (or revolutionist) "flying column" operating in County Cork, with special emphasis on a gentle young doctor, Damien (Cillian Murphy) and his more hot-headed brother, Teddy (Padraic Delaney), who is the group's leader. Theirs is a life of midnight raids on British barracks, roadside ambushes, betrayals, captivity (which includes brutal torture...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An Earnest Look at a Violent Past | 3/15/2007 | See Source »

...between these two insurgencies, that Loach's film encounters its largest structural problem. Basically, he gathers most of his flying column figures in a room and sets them to yelling at one another about whether the half-loaf of freedom offered by the treaty with the Brits can satisfy the national hunger for full-scale independence. He gives the ameliorists a fair hearing, but most decide to return to the opposition. Despite the impassioned rhetoric of the meeting, it is, admittedly, a stage wait. Yet it is also, I think, a measure of Loach's high intentions that he gives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An Earnest Look at a Violent Past | 3/15/2007 | See Source »

Steven T. Cupps ’09 is an biological anthropology concentrator in Lowell House. His column appears on alternate Thursdays...

Author: By Steven T. Cupps | Title: Half Political, Half Painful | 3/14/2007 | See Source »

...Lucy M. Caldwell ’09 is a history and literature concentrator in Adams House. Her column appears on alternate Wednesdays...

Author: By Lucy M. Caldwell | Title: Committee: Party Buzz-Kill | 3/13/2007 | See Source »

Malcom A. Glenn ’09 is a history concentrator in Leverett House. His column appears on alternate Tuesdays...

Author: By Malcom A. Glenn | Title: The Death and Life of America | 3/12/2007 | See Source »

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