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Hang Up Your Brightest Colours is a 1973 film by Welsh actor and filmmaker Kenneth Griffith, about the life and death of Irish Republican leader Michael Collins. It was directed by Antony Thomas.

Although usually classed as a documentary, the film more closely resembles a dramatic monologue, with Griffith frequently delivering quotes by key figures such as David Lloyd George, Winston Churchill, and Collins himself "in character."

The film was commissioned by media mogul Lew Grade for transmission by ATV, the ITV region covering the Midlands he controlled at the time. Grade had, in fact, offered to fund whatever subject Griffith wanted to make, but when he viewed the finished film, he refused to show it. In his memoirs, Griffith claimed that Grade was unofficially instructed not to offer the film to the IBA for network transmission, so that the Association would not have to reject it and therefore be accused of political censorship.[1] Griffith took legal action, received an out-of-court settlement and built his home - Michael Collins House - in Islington with the proceeds.

The film has been described as, "finest of all (of Griffith's) drama-docs," and, "more courageous and incendiary than the later Neil Jordan movie

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• 1916

[XxpauldadudexX]

Lol , man this guy talks like da most feminine english dude ever . The Welsh are nothing like scots , irish....theyre a different race....beady eyes n short n dark...the irish n scots look more like english actually .

[ryanmcgills10]

the irish volunteers were sent to help the brittish in the great war they wernt fighting in ireland so they wouldnt have shot fellow irish men

[ryanmcgills10]

collins wasnt actually in the frontline shooting at the GPO he provided the ammo and delivered messages between the top and bottom floors

[schizoidboy]

The sad irony was that most of the Irish Volunteers didn't actually join the rebels, most sided with Redmond's Home Rulers and joined the British Army during the war, meaning it was possible that they might have fought the rebels during the uprising.