Michael Collins
Acting
Biography
Michael Collins is a Traveller rights activist and one of the best known Irish actors, known for his work in numerous features, shorts and theatre productions. He is best known for “King of the Travellers” and the Irish Soap Opera, “Glenroe”. In 2011, he won the Lifetime Achievement award for his contributions to Irish Traveller rights.
Place of Birth: Ireland
Known For
Killinaskully
details the bizarre goings-on in a fictitious Irish village called Killinaskully located in the hills of Ireland
Irish Crime: Girl Hunter
A student of Cathrin is murdered and draped like a doll found on the beach. The dead body corresponds to the imagination of one of Cathrin's patients. Kelly, however, suspects a friend of the dead.
King of the Travellers
King of the Travellers is a contemporary drama grounded in the traditions of the Irish traveller community and driven by emotive Shakespearean themes of love, betrayal, friendship and revenge. The story follows John Paul Moorehouse on his destructive quest to uncover the truth about the killer of his father twelve years ago. John Paul's desire for revenge is swayed as he falls for Winnie Power, the daughter of the man he suspects killed his father. John Paul must now battle between his consuming passion for justice versus his desire to be with the woman he now loves.
Jack Taylor
Jack Taylor is an Irish television drama based on a series of novels by Ken Bruen. Set in Galway, the series stars Iain Glen in the eponymous role of Jack Taylor, a former officer with the Garda Síochána who becomes a "finder" after leaving the service. Taylor is a man who goes looking for clues where others have not bothered to. He also knows the streets of his hometown like the back of his hand.
Man About Dog
Three pedigree chumps learn that every underdog has its day in this freewheeling Irish comedy. In hock to the tune of £50,000 to a Belfast bookie and saddled with a dopey greyhound that wouldn't run if its backside was on fire, the likely lads head south on a road trip in the hope of seeing a man about a dog. Foul-mouthed and funny, Man About Dog is full of great craic.
Pavee Lackeen: The Traveller Girl
An intimate portrait of a resilient and spirited young girl and her proud and dignified family, who are part of Ireland's "traveller" community.
Float Like a Butterfly
Irish Traveller Frances has to fight for the right to pursue her passion... boxing. She is determined to make her idol Muhammad Ali proud, as well as her father who has recently been released from prison. But when she wants to show him just how tough she is, she soon comes to realise he's got other plans for her.
Strength and Honour
A single father decides to break his dying wife's last wish to not box again in order to save his young son from certain death.
Trojan Eddie
Trojan Eddie sells stolen goods for John Power, aging godfather of a local network of Irish gypsies, known as "travelers." Having done time rather than inform on his partner in a failed burglary, Eddie now struggles to raise his two daughters alone. Power falls for and marries traveler girl Kathleen, but when she runs off with Power's nephew Dermot — and takes the $11,000 dowry with her — Eddie must track the couple down.
Agape
A young Traveller Women who is forced into a Marriage she has no say in with a man she can never love. While she battles confronting her new reality, the Woman Margret really loves has no choice but to watch as everything goes downhill.
Filmography
as Davie
as Tom Dunne
as Uncle Tommy
as Francis Moorehouse
as Karl
as Sweeper Mangan
as Foreman
as Frankie O’Neill
as Uncle Martin
as Tiny
as Mikey
as 2nd Traveller