SOME of us who spent days of indulgence and dissipation in the mid-90s watching films will be familiar with the scene: The opening sequence in Neil Jordan’s film Michael Collins and as the leaders of the Easter 1916 Rising emerge from the smoke to surrender, a disappointed Collins (Liam Neeson) turns to his comrade Harry Boland (Aidan Quinn) and says that next time next time, “we won’t play by their rules, Harry. We’ll invent our own.”