The Wind That Shakes the Barley Page #5

- Very, very funny.

Turn out your pockets. How much

money have you got in your pocket?

- Be careful there, Dan.

- Be quiet. Be quiet.

- How much?

- What you talking about?

Can you not answer a civil question?

How much money have you got?

- Answer him, Tim.

- How much?

- I have a shilling, alright?

- Ned, how much land do you own?

Answer me, come on. Have you

a blade of grass to your name?

No, not a blade.

- These boys are fine.

- Let me finish.

I'm talking here.

Right, you're paupers, just like me.

Take a look at this country

and see the amount of volunteers

that are involved in land seizures,

cattle drives. Know why that is?

- That's enough of that.

- It's not enough of it!

The IRA are backing the landlords

and crushing people like you and me.

- You sat down with the IRA last night.

- I'm talking here!

You want madness

up and down the country?

Hold on.

You saw it here two minutes ago.

These boys backing the local bigwig

and selling out a mother who hasn't

got a penny. Just like yours!

Teddy... Teddy, I have no problem

taking any order you want to give me.

I'll jump off a cliff, if you want.

But you sure as hell

better respect this court.

- Dan.

- This is our government.

I understand what you're saying.

I will pay for the woman's groceries

out of my own pocket.

It's not about that!

Right there.

Jesus.

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.

And she come 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.

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."

I've crossed the line now, Sinead.

I want time with you,

Damien O'Donovan.

I can't feel anything.

In nomine Patris et Filii

et Spiritus Sancti.

Right, Ted.

That's all, Father. Thanks.

Right.

I'll give the boys a blessing,

Finbar.

May our Lord Jesus Christ

who sacrificed Himself on the cross

for each and every one of you...

...may He grant you

the strength and courage

to deal with the trials and

tribulations that lie before you.

In nomine Patris

et Filii et Spiritus Sancti.

Amen.

Congo, in there.

Ned, just on Damien's right.

Finbar, on the far side.

Just by... Yeah, on Ned's right.

Auxies, lads! Auxies!

- Auxies!

- Auxies!

Fall out!

Cease fire!

Damien. Congo.

- Cease fire!

- Go down and check.

Congo, cover Damien.

Dan, Finbar, Vince, Shane,

watch the position from here.

Donacha, eyes towards the open road.

- Are you OK, Teddy?

- One man dead! One man dead!

We got one man dead!

- What did he say?

- One man dead.

Who's dead?

Finbar, one man dead!

- Up here, Damien.

- Get the weapons.

It's Gogan. Give me your gun.

- He's dead.

- He's gone?

- What?

- He's gone.

He's dead. Gogan's dead.

- Move it.

- Come on, wake up.

- Come on, men, you're soldiers.

- Stop looking at them.

- You are soldiers!

- Move, move, move!

Move it, come on! Move it!

He would have killed you!

- Move! Come on! Fall in!

- Form up your columns.

- Into threes.

- In threes.

- Shoulder your weapon.

- Shoulder your weapon!

- Sean, buck up, boy!

- Into your section.

Column,

attention!

Hup!

Rough business, boys. Filthy job.

Now, look again,

I'm going to show you something.

Look! Look to your right.

Look to your right.

Mercenaries who were paid

to come over

to make us crawl and to wipe us out.

Here's what we've done. We've 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.

Everybody out! Get them out!

Go on. Keep going.

Get down. Against that wall.

Get down on your knees.

Get down on your knees!

Sh*t!

Have you a round? One round?

We haven't a bullet between us.

Stay where you are.

Oh, sh*t!

F***ing hell,

just let me go down there!

Stay the f*** down! There's nothing

we can do. They're dead.

- Get her arm!

- No!

Jesus Christ!

No!

You bastards! Get off me!

Stay. No, you stay where you are!

What good are you dead? Stay.

You stay where you are.

Tell us what we want to know!

Tell us what we want to know!

You go, you're dead. Stay!

Fenian whore!

Look at it burn!

Tell us what we want.

Tell us! Tell us!

I'm sorry. I'm sorry.

Easy does it.

- How's she holding up?

- She's very weak still.

Well, Bernadette,

we'll have to find you

somewhere to stay

for the next few weeks.

I'm sure the McCarthys will keep us

for a while, Damien.

I'll go over there later on. Mam,

we'll go over to McCarthy's later.

- I'm not moving out of this place.

- What?

I'm not moving out of this place.

I was four years old,

my father died of a famine fever.

- Sure, I know, Peggy.

- And later, I had five children.

And I was evicted. And I am not

moving out, unless in the box.

lt'll only be for a few weeks.

There's nothing here.

The house is gone.

- I'll clean out the chicken coop.

- Now, don't be talking like that.

- Clean out the chicken coop?

- Yes, I'm cleaning the chicken coop.

Where Micheail was murdered?

You expect us to live inside there?

- I'll clean the chicken coop.

- I know, Peggy.

- You can't do this to me, Nan!

- I'll go and clean the chicken coop.

Jesus Christ, can you not see

what they've done to me?

- I'm not as strong you, Nan.

- Nan, please.

Jesus, Damien,

will you take me away from here?

- Come here. Sinead. Come on.

- I can't take it any more!

I don't want to end up like her!

I want to have some kind of a life!

Come on. Come on.

- Ah, Jesus!

- Sit down. Sit down. Sit down.

You're still in shock, do you hear?

- It's all gone.

- Easy now. Easy now. Easy now.

Sinead.

Teddy O'Donovan?

Teddy O'Donovan?

I've an urgent message

for Teddy O'Donovan.

- What do you want?

- I've a message for him.

- What's your name?

- Tomas, sir.

What's the message?

I don't know. It just starts with T,

that's all I know.

The most important word

of the message starts with a T?

- Where's the message?

- Who gave it to you?

- A man down the village.

- I think he's lost it.

- Come on now, where's the message?

- Check in your back pockets.

- Who gave it to you? You lost it?

- Take off your jacket.

- Was it a piece of paper?

- Yes.

- Was it an important message?

- Yes. He said it was very important.

He had a message but he's lost it.

I don't have time for this.

- Did you come down or up the hill?

- Down the hill.

See if you can find it. Thick

for dropping the message, was it?

Hold up, I have it.

I have it. I have it.

"A truce has been declared.

Hostilities cease from midnight."

- "God bless you all. Finbar."

- Truce?

- What?

- A truce has been declared.

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