There is a moral question mark over my head when it comes to the Irish War Of Independence, the Old IRA of Michael Collins were vastly different from the thugs of Brownie, but there was the chance Irish independence could have been achieved by peaceful means.
I was in Ireland last summer when the film, "The Wind That Shakes the Barley" opened. From the folks who I spoke to, most said it and "Michale Collins" were fairly accurate-- rather, not totally inaccurate. Have you seen "...Wind..."? What did you think?
Collins, by organizing assassination squads, in a sense planted the seeds that murdered him.