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From Neil Jordan to Lara Maiklem: new books reviewed in short
Amnesiac: A Memoir by Neil Jordan Michael Collins – the sprawling biopic about the Irish revolutionary hero – is perhaps the director Neil Jordan’s most conventional box-office hit. “Give us the future, we’ve had enough of your past. Give us our country …