"There's a pretty good chance I'm infected too. If that's the case, I've got just enough fuel left to drop out of orbit and burn up in the atmosphere. At least it'll be quick. You should get this in about 15 minutes, so, uh, I guess I'll be waiting. Five eleven Zulu, Aurora lander out!"

"Paul Warren - Infected Marko"

"Patrick Joseph Byrnes - Flight Commander Ellis"

"Martin Lucey – Congo"

"Myles Horgan – Rory"

"Mary O'Riordan – Peggy"

"Mary Murphy – Bernadette"

"Laurence Barry – Micheál Ó Súilleabháin"

"Orla Fitzgerald – Sinéad Ní Shúilleabháin"

"Liam Cunningham – Dan"

"Pádraic Delaney – Teddy O'Donovan"

"Cillian Murphy – Damien O'Donovan"

"[The IRA have just destroyed a Black-and-Tan mechanised infantry patrol] Mercenaries! That were paid to come over here to make us crawl, and to wipe us out. We've just sent a message to the British cabinet that will echo and reverberate around the world! If they bring their savagery over here, we will meet it with a savagery of our own!"

"If we ratify this treaty, all we're changing is the accents of the powerful and the colour of the flag."

"[to Sinead, about Chris] We buried him in this chapel in the mountains. And I went down and... and I told his mother. His mother, who has cooked meals for me and her son. And when I told her she... she just looked at me. and then she went in and she put on her shoes. Then she came out and she said, "Take me to my child." And we walked for six hours and she didn't say one word. Then we got to the chapel. [sighs] And I showed her the grave. And I'd put a... cross and some flowers on it. And she turned to me and she said, "I never want to see your face again." [sighs] I've crossed the line now, Sinead."

"Strange creatures we are, even to ourselves."

"Your presence here is a crime, a foreign occupation. You tell me what I'm supposed to do as a democrat. Turn the other cheek for another 700 years? Is that it?"

"It's easy to know what you are against, but quite another to know what you are for."

"The Treaty does not express the will of the people, but the fear of the people."

"Kevin O'Brien – Tim"

"Seán McGinley – Father Denis"

"Fiona Lawton – Lily"

"William Ruane – Johnny Gogan"

"Máirtín de Cógáin – Sean"

"I tried not to get into this war, and couldn't. Now I try to get out, and can't."

"Shane Casey – Kevin"

"Frank Bourke – Leo"

"Damien Kearney – Finbar"

"John Crean – Chris Reilly"

"Roger Allam – Sir John Hamilton"

"Seán McGinley - Smith"

"Alan Rickman - Éamon de Valera"

"Julia Roberts - Kitty Kiernan"

"Ian Hart as Joe O'Reilly"

"Brendan Gleeson - Liam Tobin"

"Gerard McSorley - Cathal Brugha"

"Owen O'Neill - Rory O'Connor"

"Charles Dance - Soames"

"Jonathan Rhys Meyers - Collins's Assassin"

"Ian McElhinney - Belfast Detective"

"Stuart Graham - Tom Cullen"

"An epic tale of passion and destiny."

"Ireland, 1916. His dreams inspired hope. His words inspired passion. His courage forged a nation's destiny. An epic tale of passion and destiny."

"Michael Collins was 31 when he died. Half a million people attended his funeral in Dublin. All parties to the conflict, both British and Irish, were temporarily united in grief. In his brief lifetime, he had fought the British Empire to a stalemate, negotiated the first Treaty of Independence for Ireland and overseen its transition to democracy. He died, paradoxically, in an attempt to finally remove the gun from Irish politics."

"That's why he died. He knew the risk he was taking when he went down there, but he thought them worth taking. He took them for us, for every gobshite in this country, no matter what side they were on."

"You've got to think of him the way he was. The way he cycled round Dublin in his pin-striped suit with £10,000 pounds on his head. "Why hide, Joe" he'd say "when that's what they'd expect?". But he never did what anyone expected. He got the British out of here and no one expected that. Some people are what the times demand, and life without them seems impossible. But he's dead. And life is possible. He made it possible."

"[Trying to convince the Dáil to accept the Anglo-Irish Treaty] I would plead with every person here. Make me a scapegoat if you will, call me a traitor if you will, but please, let's save the country. The alternative to this treaty is a war which nobody in this gathering can even contemplate. If the price of freedom, the price of peace is the blackening of my name, I will gladly pay it."

"At the turn of the century, Britain was the foremost world power and the British Empire stretched over two-thirds of the globe. Despite the extent of its power, its most troublesome colony had always been the one closest to it, Ireland. For over seven hundred years, Britain's rule over Ireland had been resisted by attempts at revolution and rebellion, all of which ended in failure. Then, in 1916, a rebellion began, to be followed by a guerilla war that would change the nature of that rule forever. The mastermind behind that war was Michael Collins. His life and death defined the period, in its triumph, terror and tragedy. This is his story."

"Stephen Rea - Ned Broy"

"Aidan Quinn - Harry Boland"