The Wind That Shakes the Barley Movie Quotes
Damien
It's easy to know what you are against, but quite another to know what you are for.
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Damien
I tried not to get into this war, and did, now I try to get out, and can't.
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Damien
The Treaty does not express the will of the people, but the fear of the people.
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Damien
And once again, with honourable exception, the Catholic Church sides with the rich.
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Damien
[loading revolver]
I studied anatomy for five years, Dan. And now i'm going to shoot this man in the head. I've known Chris Reilly since he was a child. I hope this Ireland we're fighting for is worth it.
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Damien
Strange creatures we are, even to ourselves.
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Damien
How many British soldiers in the country, Tim?
Tim
Too many.
Damien
How many?
Teddy
About ten thousand, Damien.
Damien
Ten Thousand. Tans, artillery units, machine-gun car, cavalry...
Teddy
And many more besides. What's your point, Damien?
Damien
It's young men like Micheail we're talkin' about, Teddy.
Teddy
Micheail was a real Irishman, Damien.
Ned
You're a coward, Damien.
Damien
I'm a coward? And you're a hero, isn't it, Ned? You're gonna take down the British army with your hurley, is that it?
Rory
For Christ's sake, Damien. What about Micheail?
Damien
Look, Micheail was killed because he wouldn't say his name in English. Is that what you call a martyr, Teddy, is it?
Sinead
So we should all buy a one-way ticket to London, is that it, Damien?
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Sinead
It's Teddy in the freestate uniform. Teddy's wearing the bloody freestate uniform.
Dan
Kick out the Black and Tans, bring in the Green and Tans.
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Teddy
It's not too late, Damien.
Damien
For me or for you?
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Finbar
[the IRA have just gunned down several Black and Tans]
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 reverbarate around the world! If they bring their savagery over here, we will meet it with a savagery of our own!
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Damien
Give me your letters, Chris.
[Damien holds out his hand. Chris just looks at him]
Damien
Give me your letters, Chris!
Chris
I didn't know what to write. And Mam can't read.
[Damien lets his hand fall, sighs]
Chris
Just tell her I love her. And where I'm buried.
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Chris
Promise me, Damien. Promise me you won't bury me next to him?
[points to Sir John]
Damien
The chapel. Do you remember, on the way up? Do you remember?
Chris
Yeah.
Damien
In there.
Chris
Tell Teddy I'm sorry. I'm scared, Damien.
Chris
Yeah.
Damien
God protect you.
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Dan
If we ratify this treaty, all we're changing is the accents of the powerful and the colour of the flag.
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Teddy
[looking around Hamilton's study]
Such a beautiful room, it's hard to imagine a man's scream from here. Ever seen fingernails ripped out with a rusty pliers, Sir John, hmm? All your learning, and you still don't understand.
Sir John Hamilton
Oh, I understand perfectly, Mr. O'Donovan. God preserve Ireland if ever your kind take control.
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Damien
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.
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Damien
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]
Damien
I've crossed the line now, Sinead.
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Peggy
[singing, at the wake for Micheail]
The old for her / The new that made me think / On Ireland dearly / While soft the wind blew down the glen / And shook the golden barley / 'Twas hard the woeful words to frame / To break the ties that bound us / But harder still to bear the shame / Of foreign chains around us / And so I said the mountain glen / I'll seek at morning early / While soft the wind blew down the glen / And shook the golden barley
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Teddy
"Immediate and terrible war." Those were the exact words. The threat promised by the British Cabinet if we didn't ratify this treaty.
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Finbar
You say the Brits are leaving here? They're going 300 miles up the road, Leo. That's where they're going.
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Damien
It is too late, Teddy. You can't see it. You really can't see it. John Bull has got his hand down your pants, his fist round your bollocks and you can't see it?
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[last lines]
Sinead
[to Teddy]
Get out. Leave me. Get off my land! I don't ever want to see you again!
[breaks down]
Sinead
Oh, Damien, no. Oh, no.
[sobs]
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Damien
I shot Chris Reilly in the heart. I did that. You know why. I'm not going to sell out.
Teddy
[walks to the door, not lookin at Damien]
Better write your letters Damien.
[turna around and faces him]
Teddy
Tell us where the arms are... or you will be shot at dawn.
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Dan
Right. You're paupers, just like me. Take a look up and down this country and see the amount of volunteers that are involved in land seizures and cattle drives. Now do you want to know why that is happening?
Teddy
That's enough of that now.
Dan
It's not enough of it! The IRA are backing the landlords and crushing people like you and me.
Teddy
You sat down with the IRA last night.
Dan
I'm talking here!
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Priest
Not content with stealing your savings, they'll be nationalising the 12 apostles next.
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Damien
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?
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The Interrogator
You're not a bog cutter. Show me your hands. Show me your fucking hands!
Damien
What are you gonna do? What are you gonna do? Pull my fingernails off, is that it?
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Damien
Micheail was killed because he wouldn't say his name in English. That what you call a martyr, is it, Teddy?
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