Original sentence: Although the film received praise for bringing the story of Michael Collins to a wide international audience, some historians criticised it for taking a number of liberties with facts.If people remember de Valera as a blind old man in semi-retirement in the presidency of Ireland in the 1960s and early 1970s, Cosgrave as the prime minister who had to balance the books financially after the Wall Street Crash, Mulcahy as the man who authorised executions of prisoners during the Civil War, Eoin O'Duffy as the policeman turned politician who became attracted to at least the Spanish form of fascism (under Franco), Collins remains in the public memory as the glorious, strapping, young man, barely 30, who delivered a republic, then a treaty, who inspired a generation, and who died before his time as his country stood on the threshold of independence.In 1996, Michael Collins became the subject of a film by director Neil Jordan called Michael Collins with Liam Neeson playing the title role, as well as Julia Roberts playing Collins' fiancé, Kitty Kiernan
Edited sentence: Although the film received praise for bringing the story of Michael Collins to a wide international audience, historians criticised it for taking a huge number of liberties with facts.If people remember de Valera as the father figure of the irish state, Cosgrave as the prime minister who had to balance the books financially after the Wall Street Crash, Mulcahy as the man who authorised executions of prisoners during the Civil War, Eoin O'Duffy as the policeman turned politician who became attracted to at least the Spanish form of fascism (under Franco), Collins remains in the public memory as the glorious, strapping, young man, barely 30, who delivered a republic, then a treaty, who inspired a generation, and who died before his time as his country stood on the threshold of independence.In 1996, Michael Collins became the subject of a semi fictitious film by director Neil Jordan called Michael Collins with Liam Neeson playing the title role, as well as Julia Roberts playing Collins' fiancé, Kitty Kiernan.The film itself while giving a historical reflection of Ireland at the time can not be taken at face value due to it's obvious inaccuracies