Wind That Shakes The Barley Interview

[MRAK47ification]

cilian murohy = shit actor

[cronhole]

@MRAK47ification yeah i hate cilian murohy too, but Cillian Murphy is class :)

[Yeoomofo]

@MRAK47ification who's he? because Cillian Murphy is amazing :')

[creativeforce11]

Like this interview - have a great respect for Cillian - Great Irish Actor

[theweirdkids1]

im from belfast and i love this movie and its so strange to think all the scenery isnt that far away

[sccrgl10]

Kind of a random comment but in the part where it shows the part from red eye and then splits to show him as scarecrow 2, where did u get the scarecrow part?

[malismad]

"Dat's what you'd call a meartah is it, Teddy?"

Love Murphy's natural accent in this show.

[bren57mar]

Cillian Murphy is definitely in touch with his art. Best actor of our time.

[britneyfanBelfast]

i loved his movie it is my fav i couldnt stop cryin watchin it

love cillian he is gorjuss and love the accent

x

[NS675]

For anyone who hasn't seen it, watch intermission. It's funny out :) 

[reenactor19th]

dude really had it in for hollywood and marketing departments.

[thenewleighfolkscene]

@reenactor19th He's just telling it how it is, he could have been a lot more vitriolic. It's hard to see films like the wind that shakes the barley receive little recognition (despite winning the palm d'or) especially when there's so much bad produce from Hollywood flooding the market. I'm not saying everything that comes out of America is bad, I love the good Hollywood films but in England our own directors like Ken Loach are shadowed by the likes of McG.

[cheekymancunian]

yes this film does make us English look like t&&&ts. but I hope not all Irish ppl will hold grudges against all English ppl for what happened cus hate doesn't need to be spread around ppl just chill and love....

[eirexira]

ya just chill and love just forget about all the tourture and the 800 years ye english fucks held us back nothin ye will do our say will make a diffrence send ten thousand black and tans over against 800 ira jesus ye were very tough dont even reply beacause youll show your true english fucken coulours

[OSFdyme]

@cheekymancunian the film isn't intended to make the average English people look bad - but in fairness, your Government and the general history of your nation isn't anything to be admired.. i'm sure you meant well with your comment but try to refrain from minimising the extent of the horror that England inflicted here in Éire..

[brandnewyork48]

@OSFdyme it's absolutely terrible what has happened, and to think that it was not so long ago makes it worse. i'm english but my mum is from belfast and a couple of her friends were car bombed during a shopping trip and i felt awful knowing that my country has caused her country so much hurt but then again its part of my heritage too. it's kinda hard to get your head around about how to be patriotic when you're half irish lol.

[OSFdyme]

@brandnewyork48 being Patriotic really hasn't got to do with blood, to me it's about standing up for what you believe is right.. just because your heritage is on both sides doesn't mean you have to sit on the fence (or feel guilt over things outside of your control).. there have been many English people who assisted the Irish in the struggle.. google "Rose Dugdale Wiki" for one example..

[brandnewyork48]

@OSFdyme don't get me wrong, i totally think that the ira and ireland were justified in fighting for their country but i also believe that they started to take things too far and became too violent. i'm proud to be british and i'm also very proud to have irish blood, its just when certain things come up in conversation within my family i feel a little uncomfortable.

[brandnewyork48]

@OSFdyme no problem, um its really what i've heard from my grandma and my mum but we don't really go into deep discussion cos my grandfather was a policeman during this time and once you get him started on this subject you really can't get him to stop lol! and thanks for telling me about bridget rose dugdale, i looked her up and she's a pretty interesting lady for sure lol!

[OSFdyme]

@brandnewyork48 no bother lad, aye she's an interesting character to say the least lol

[brandnewyork48]

@OSFdyme hahaha, its lass actually, been nice chatting to someone on here with their head screwed on in the right place lol!

[OSFdyme]

@brandnewyork48 oh jesus sorry about that lassy lol.. shouldn't be makin' presumptions like that.. aye thanks, yours seems fairly screwed in too

[brandnewyork48]

@OSFdyme haha!

[cheekymancunian]

Sorry if I have upset anyone with my comment I am sorry.

[malachy1847]

No we in Ireland saw that this War was a war of liberation from a Colonial / Imperial power and some of those also saw it as a struggle against the Native Gombeen/ carpetbaggers who backed up this system which indeed allowed this system nation sevritude... to persist in the first place... you as a people were also equally under the jackboot this despotic regime, which used Nationalism in a racist way to funnel young men 'on both sides of the water' into that meatgrinder which was WW1.

[bsktballHM92]

movie made me cry..

[thatappletree]

i love him! he has the hottest blue eyes.

[Superpiii]

Uno dei film più belli che io abbia mai visto....

[jun7per]

Getting a little bored of seeing Murphy in everything lately. Yes hes a good actor but not in everything. Hes not a Daniel Day Lewis. Theres something lacking. Also all the very crap American films makes one reek.

[londonrocks]

cillian murphy great actor and great movie!

ireland should be given back to the irish FULLY.

[Sophexx]

I think I love him.

[stevienickslover]

this movie is about our history of ireland, not blameing the english, just what was happening at the time, and yes, realisticly there shouldint be fighting on a frigging youtube page, lil sad.

[thirteenfingers]

Great post!

I love his answer that what went on was a failing of the British administration, not the people. (Though of course, some people supported that occupation, just like some support the ruling of the North now).

My difficulty with it comes from my split heritage. Irish mother, English father. I'm as Irish as I am English - when people portray it as English vs Irish rather than an oppressive ruling elite vs all of us - it really grates on me.

LOVE this film. Gave me shivers many times.

[stevienickslover]

yeah, can see why, hatered shouldint between the two anymore, the north is equal running and its the best they can do in my point, grates on alot of people, brillent movie though

[shoeychocolat]

did dkan71 just say babetastic?

lol

[pogmothoin1128]

sad thing that ireland is still struggling for independence.. though not as a united front

[TheBeeBumm]

He needs to make more movies. Love him!

[XxTriceMariexX]

the interviewer asked crap questions...and yea,i wasn't very happy about comments about this film making england look like tyrants...coz to be truthful,they were at that time...that's history..but cillian answered very well,fair play!

[hermione589]

he's so hot O:

[trancebynature3]

very cool interview...from the fellow cork man

[dkan71]

He looks and sounds babe-tatstic in this interview and was very gracious despite the stupid questions he was asked.

[pinckney90]

Sorry i am  history ignorant american...why do the irish and english hate each other?

[sirchristian12]

The English did a lot of shit to the Irish.

Research it. It will tell you more than I can.

[juicypencil]

I am not Irish, but i could tell a little: Ireland was take over by UK more than 700 years ago. After the rebellion of Easter Rising, the Irishman united together then push out the british colonization with their "refusal action"and with treaty which Northern Ireland remaining as part of UK then rest part of Ireland became as a free state. You should understand about it, a lot of US presidents have Irish ancestry, including: JFK, Reagan and also the actual president, Obama.

[pinckney90]

thanks for the info..I will research it

[OriginalShirker]

Im sorry but Osama, i mean Obama...DOES NOT have Irish heritage.

Arab, Black...Not irish.

[nz451f]

yes he does

[flobagz]

Arab? your a retard

[flobagz]

Oh stop getting your knickers in a twist.

[stevienickslover]

he got white mother and grand parents who have said there are links, and his fathers afican, look up imfo befor you comment.

[Tara20052]

@OriginalShirker His mother has English and German Heritage just in case you and others forgot that he has a white mother then again how do you know for 100 percent sure that one of his ancesters on his mother's side is not Irish. It might not be direct but it "could" be there I'm just saying.

[BoringEnglishFlicks]

His accent isn't as strong as I thought it would be.

[jdsal62]

this interviewer sounds like such a dramatic english cont! why cant he understand how much this movie actually meant to evry irish person alive....a difficult time that made history. irish republicanism my ass, a right to citizanship more like and i can just see cillian getting pissed off with the cunt!!!!! fuck off u pretencious english fuck!!!!!!! die!!!!!

[heliotropezzz333]

The role of the interviewer is not to understand, but to ask questions to get the interviewee to talk so that others can understand.

[shaunababygingie]

hes from cork and unless the attuides of the people there are completly different from the rest of the country he should know full well that most people are bitter towards the english.

im from dublin and i know i am...

[nilihbie90]

god what a star!..and hes from cork too! woooo!

[Siobhan1948]

!! Kijk naar de films van Ken Loach, kijk naar AL zijn films !! Het zijn echte PARELS in de grote hoop wansmaak (uit o.a. Amerika en Europa), die worden met veel bravoure gespeeld en herspeeld... Maar kijk a.u.b. naar zijn films, KIJK, LUISTER EN DENK erover NA !! PRACHTIGE CINEMA!

[pinckney90]

I adore English and Irish...I live in the wrong country

[sirchristian12]

Yeah me too. Are you irish?

[pinckney90]

no I guess you refer to us as yanks?

[sirchristian12]

The Americans as yanks?

[lulyboppyjobey]

Love the film !!!!!

Love him!

[jamieph07]

He knows rightly everyone in Ireland despises the english with a passion !

[UpCloseJonas]

Wow, the reporter just wants to tell Cillian what to say!! Good thing Cillian's too smart to fall for it. You're awesome CM!!!!!

[cynner13]

i don't think he likes interviews but i don't blame him lol hes hot and hes an amazing actor! luv him!

[stephen8743]

I think he looks more uncomfortable than nervous. Great actor and a great film!

[kyra610]

Cillian seems quite nervous here ^^;; but he's sure looking good!

[frannymagz]

I don't think he's Protestant, considering he attended Coláiste na Toirbhirte ^^. Is aisteoir an-mhaith é, fosta.

[charger25p]

The movie was a brilliant rendition of the early days of the "Irish Rebellion"..It negates the offensive opinion of the Irish people.And this idiot who played a marvelous role in a movie,is most likely Protestant...Grasping all the crowns he can get..

[raah07]

he's so god damn fit.

[Wowbagger86]

Isn't this interview supposed to be about the movie and the role he played, not about the movie industy :/

[theycallmeonion]

That interviewer was sort of pushy. Leading questions like no other. Cillian was very diplomatic.

[xBRADx562x]

ya know, i think it might have been better if they would have picked an actor who loves his people, sure hes handsome and a damn fine actor... but it would have been more authentic with an irishmen who seems to love his people, not one that calls London home

[usulkane]

Its quite refreshing to see a guy in his spot with his head on strait...I'm rooting for him.

[Kikkipeterhans]

Great Cillian, one of the best "young actors". In this film, but also in "Breakfast on Pluto" he's simply perfect!!

[Twinkletoes6126]

OMG loved Breakfast on Pluto it made me cry as did Wind that shakes the barley! Great Irish actor!

[gabe0083]

this was a very good movie

[lisaCxXXx]

everyone says my boyfriend looks like him :L:L

[elissa107]

why is this marked as a bad comment???? are people jelouse? lol

[lisaCxXXx]

lol oh yeah ! haha

[denni1988]

gwan cilian

[dantespimp]

I just love how realistic Cillian is in terms of cinema in Hollywood and independant films. He treats it all equally and doesn't discriminate. I think Cillian is one of the few actors really in touch with his art. You go boy! :-D

[earthpox]

it seems like he really didn't wanna talk about the davinci code. i wouldn't have either. i'd be worried about bashing it or something on accident.

[earthpox]

i enjoy his glasses. not all guys look good in sunglasses. he's very...yay Cillian !

[dantespimp]

LOL, I know. He's one of the few guys who can pull off the sunglass/sexy look. Man, this guy drools sensuality and he probably doesn't even realize it. ^_^

[jacquiebaird]

bad thing about his sunglasses though you can't see his beautiful blue eyes! did you see him in "sunshine"

[toniyehaxx]

He Is Sooo Gorgeous!

Really An Amazing Actor!

One Of His Biggest Fans !

Keep Up Thee Good Work Cillian

[enigma19833]

I love Cillian, but you can tell he really doesn't want to be there!

[iwillbeyourvampire]

oh Cillian..........you're beautiful.

[oOoOsexygirlOoOo]

thanx god 4 make a man so wonderfull!! i love him its such cute!!! ^.^ lol!!!!! im another of his biggest fans!!!

[ajmackintoshx3]

Oh my god damn;

I love Cillian Murphy.

^.^

[irishcatholicgirlie]

This movie had such heartbreaking scenes

[MatIrish]

i lik dis film 2

[odetomy]

I like this interview.

[xxstriper07xx]

cillian murphy looks hansome in that!!

i love him sooo much!!

im his biggest fan!!

xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

[7and7is]

Cillian Murphy is a great actor, this was a great picture and I am glad to have seen it.

[hoolley]

O for goodness sake it was an absolutely brilliant movie, Thank you Ken Loach.

[Sbfenian1916]

R E L A X

[Ancupola]

Oh you do shock me! Do you condone what is taking place to the Afikaaner people? They are not responsible for what happened in the past but the new regime there are responsible for what now happens there. Shame!

[Ancupola]

As stated before I have a problem with those who abuse the system not with any particular ethnic group. There can be no such thing as a multi-cultural society as Margaret Thatcher once stated. A multi-ethnic society is another matter but back fires so very often.

[geilbear]

And as i said barely any african imigrants abuse the system or would dare do so as they would be deported thanks to fascist laws. You should stop listening to racist government propaganda, multi-cultural and multi-ethnic societies are possible as long as there is understanding between the groups there is only a problem when propaganda from the dominant group portrays the other as dangerous.

[Ancupola]

I live the reality and as a mixed race person I know what troubles can take place thank you. Multi this and that does not work and the melting pot is a nasty nightmare of a situation. You need only look at Ireland to see that after hundreds of years the people in ulster are divided. Fromer USSR and Yugoslavia not to mention Fiji and India prove mixing does not work.

[geilbear]

The countries you mentioned experienced ethnic wars due to the supression of smaller groups by a dominant group,as i said tensions wouldn't occur if a policy of suppression, due to an unjustified fear, wasn't employed. This is evident from multicultural/ethnic societies like canada and brazil.

[Ancupola]

Brazil,,,,,,,Canada,,,,,,ask the native peoples how they feel! I am part Maori and know how my ancestors suffered thanks to European intrusion. In Brazil and Canada the native peoples are oppresed and suffer from alcohol and drug abuse and high infant mortality.

[geilbear]

Im not talking about the past which i agree was horrific and wrong, your irish ancestors suffered the same, im talking about the multicultural peaceful societies that have developed there. If you keep dwelling on a violent past there will be no future.

[Ancupola]

You clearly don't know the reality of Brazil and Canada. Look at what is taking place against the native Brazilians. Ohh the wonderful Rainbow nation of South Africa - where are the dogooders to defend the Afrikaaners?

[geilbear]

I lived in Canada for several years and have no idea what your talking about, grasping for straws me thinks, as for brazil it is a functioning multicultural, non violent society, though there are wide disparities between classes. In terms of destruction of native resources due to deforestation thats by non brazilian white corporations that buy off the corrupt government, its corruption not genocide.

[Ancupola]

Ohh the big bag WHITE man does it again! Get real, try being an Afrikaaner or a native Brazilian. The only successful multi-ethnic states I can think of are Switzerland and Singapore. Both of which allow considerable autonomy for the differing groups as well as imposing strong order.

[geilbear]

I dont see how im a big bad white man but whatever floats your boat. I never said i dont sympathise with Brazilian natives, i do, i just believe there suffering due to greed rather then delibrate racist policy , as for Afrikaneers there a bunch of facists that deserve whatever they get for there brutal suppression of the black majority, which comes back to my core argument, if one group suppresses another, due to preceived danger there will be violence.

[7and7is]

why don't you fucking do something about it, rather than sitting on YOUTUBE and ARGUING. what the fuck have you done, any ways? how much of your precious little big white man's paycheck do you send to help these people in South Africa, Brazil, and the Native Americans of Canada? Put up or shut up.

[geilbear]

Not that its any of your business but when i lived in canada my family regularly helped giving clothes and food to a local native american charity, whats more i personally give much of the meager amount i make to oxfam. Further more i am an active member of a socialist party thats main aim is to bring about change that would make such abuses impossible, how about you big mouth!?

[7and7is]

I wasn't talking to you geilbear, I meant to post that under Ancupola's post.

[geilbear]

Oh thats ok continue berating the guy, from my memory he was a racist asshole!

[7and7is]

shut up.

[Ancupola]

The English have a lot to account for.

[Ancupola]

My great aunt who was a deaf woman was murdered by the black and tans. She was hanging out her washing and was shot at. The Brits have a lot to answer for. Our ancestors fought for our freedom not for the EU and a bunch of phoney asylum seekers to live off the fat of the land. Cillian does adore himself! We need need a movie about the famine and the loss off millions of innocent Irish people.

[geilbear]

Definetely agree, need a movie during the famine era, though your views on asylum seekers is bigoted.

[Ancupola]

No, not at all. I have a very good friend who is a genuine refugee. I refer to the waves of Africans who came to Ireland to spawn to gain a passport. How could you approve of such scroungers? I know several lovely Chinese people who work very hard and run their own business employing 12 people. I am not a bigot but a realist and my Chinese friends agree with me.

[geilbear]

First of all i'll take it your telling the truth about your chinese friends, but will reafirm that that your a bigot, just towards Africans. If you knew anything about the immigration situation you'd know that Africans make up a tiny proportion of immigrants and most of that minority work like dogs for below minimum wage for greedy bosses. There is only a very small minority who dont work and believe you me this conservative government deportsw them immediately in an illegal fashion.

[Ancupola]

I have to disagree with you I am afraid. The majority of migration is from eastern Europe. You can all me what ever you want but you need to know I am of mixed race including Maori and Irish and find that your adherence to labelling me a bigot offensive. Ireland is too soft on immigration. Nobody stops to think about the displaced Irish workers do they? The Irish ferries fiasco is a glowing example.

[geilbear]

Where to begin, first i know eastern europeans make up the majority, i said africans were the minority, if you read my post properly you'd know this. Second i could care less that your half maori, its that fact that your, yes i'll say it again, a bigot that bothers me. The reason jobs are being displaced is due to greedy bosses and the government encouraging immigration and paying those immigrants way below minimum wage to earn more profit, thus displacing irish workers.

[geilbear]

Its ignorant irish people like yourself that blame the workers, who are just trying to improve their god awful lives, instead of the greedy bosses that only care about making more profit, and could care less about irish workers! Finally i was involved in the irish ferries protests and it was to do with workers solidarity and an attempt to address the illegal wage disparity of foreign and native workers, not some rascist demonstration which you apparently think it was!

[Ancupola]

My Maori hertiage is important to me. Are you anti-Maori? Are you making a racist comment? Tut tut.

[geilbear]

No i was trying to say that just because you have maori heritage doesn't mean a) i consider you any less irish and b) any less at fault for having bigoted views towards african immigrants. You should be proud of your heritage both sides, indeed thats the essense of a multicultural society, something you seem to have a problem with when it comes to africans!

[Jack63815]

u'r excatly right. ireland is not a socialist country anymore.

[geilbear]

Never was!

[Jack63815]

it was for the 1930-1970. i hope it does soem day though because capitalism is turing ireland in2 a second america. and if maybe more of the government were socialist they wud remember that there are still 6 counties under britsih rule instead of how much money they can make. i wud actually support a commuist state but that will never happen.

[geilbear]

Woah hold your horses i dont know who you've been talkin to but ireland was never socialist, the only thing that came close was the limerick soviet, true there were state run organisations but the economy was firmly in the capitalist market. Secondly communism or as those in the party call it stalinism is too brutal and is doomed due to its centralised bureucracy. Finally there needs to be a genuine non sectarian socialist movement in the north for Ireland to be united

[Jack63815]

o.k i'll correct u straight away. communism and stalinsim are two completely different things. the south of ireland is a mutli party government which means if the socialist party had a mahority it would b socialist AND ireland is a socialist republic. lastly u are blind if u'r one of the many southern irish who think any nationalist movement up north is sectrian. i guess just listen 2 u'r freestate media and don't take it from people who live there

[geilbear]

You misunderstood me, when i said communism was stalinism i meant the countries often called communist eg. cuba, the ussr, were stalinist, of course communism has never existed, socialism either, so a country cant be communist. Secondly the only way socialism can truely come about is through a revolution not through parliament. Finally if you could direct me to the non sectarian working class movement in the north i'd be happy to retract my statement!

[Jack63815]

mmmmm SDLP? sinn féin *before they kinda changed*?

[geilbear]

Sinn out and out said the were not socialist during the election down here, the SDLP is a joke and is worse then labour, i sincerley hope a proper socialist party is formed to help the north in the form, not to be arrogant, of the irish socialist party im a member of under joe higgins.

[Jack63815]

i think our concept of socialism may be a bit different. u'rs may be right by I consider socialism is about having equal rights and equal pay for all workers etc

[geilbear]

Yeah thats roughly what socialism is, which along with other principles i follow and attempt to promote, in any case i see no reason to argue to do so is left sectarian and certainly doesn't benefit the cause, good luck comrade!

[liamcork]

never been and im glad of it...

[sublimityeternal]

i could look at his lips all day. not to mention his acting.

[seanaus07]

so yes he does agree it fights for the rep. cause

[Eclipseooo]

I ordered this movie on Ebay. ^^ It's by far my favorite.  and I think he fancies himself as well... HAHA

[t7086126969]

Wind That Shakes The Barley was a great movie. I ordered from Europe to the US just last week and ripped it onto my ipod. This movie has great story direction and superior acting.

[PFunkstein]

if your in north america and cant find the film-download limewire and look it up.  Thats what i did and downloaded it

[nessinoo]

Brill movie!!its a shame british kids aren't taught this area of history in school,it's nothing against the brits as ppl,it's showing what the administration was like at that time!!luv cillian murphy,such a good film,never felt more proud to be irish!!

[JTFndLOAforever]

how does he fancy himeself you sap!

[clontifleece]

he fancies himself

[JTFndLOAforever]

it wz banned from british cinemas bcz the british dnt want 2 c what theyre like or were like in some cases

[krazyklare94]

fucking the best film ever my granda's family comes from cork and he said his father was tortured then hung by british soldiers about that time and it's fuckin emotional wen he shoot a fellow conrad

[jenn1987hammond]

He's Such A Lovely, Lovely, Beautiful Man!

And Incredibly Talented!

I Would LOVE To Meet Him Someday Soon, That Is What I Would Tell Him!

[JimboJones100]

Hey they tried to keep away from the Irish in Britain, what chance do the Irish in America have. Also they may make a few British/Irish, American/Iraq connections.

P.S saw this film yesterday and I've never felt so proud to be Irish.

[FionMacCumhail]

I can't find this film anywhere in America. Sucks.

[Swalk85]

THANK YOU so much for posting this...its perfect!Yeah i had trouble findin the film in the cinima's too...but so worth it, and i like Irish history and it was great.

[Sgtmcguckin]

i am irish and im from cork i saw this film today and it was very good...so basicly im from where this was shot...ps

it makes the british look like slobs thats why i was rooting for portugal in the match today

[JaydeSabbath]

Cillian was in Mahon Point mall promoting this when it opened. It was soo cool. I live in Cork as well..from where Cillian's cousin is from, actually.

[ants1888]

JaydeSabbath where abouts in cork are u from. im from scotland but i have friends that are from cork, balincollig there from.

[luckybanshee]

ok, I was listening intently up until he started stroking his lips...but thanks for uploading it anyway :)

[Karma1989]

Haha, it's distracting ain't it? :P Just close your eyes when you watch it, heh. XD

[luckybanshee]

but that's the problem, I can't lol what can I say? he's a fucking vision ;)

[JimboJones100]

um..This film was only shown in 25 British cinemas in Britain, I wonder why?

[dfu04183]

Unfortunately many British folks are dumbasses like many writers of newspapers who dismissed thia film as IRA propaganda without even seeing it. The truth hurts to a lot of people.

[liddyloo]

i saw it in northern ireland and the cinema was packed. i was born in england and i was wondering that too!! why did we never ever hear about this in history lessons at school either? lol

[Karma1989]

Phew! I'm not weird for not reading or seeing the da vinci code, Cillian hasn't either! Haha, yayness.

Argh, he nearly killed me with the licking his lips and touching them, gawd, lol, trying to listen to what he has to say but he is so darn distracting!

Thanks for uploading this, it's a great interview.

[glitch56]

You're welcome