Michael Collins - Grangegorman Set

This set is approx. 450 feet long, the biggest ever created for a film in Ireland.
Over 100 craftsmen were employed for 17 weeks building parts of the 1916 O'Connell Street prior to the start of principal photography.
It took over 1000 tons of concrete to make the cobbled area.
The Portico and Columns of the GPO have been built against an existing facade of the original Grangegorman Hospital.
As well as the famous Easter Uprising, the set was also used to film battle scenes from the Civil War in 1921; Eamon de Valera's famous Anti-Treaty speeches, and happier moments between Kitty Kiernan, Harry Boland and Michael Collins in 1918, during De Valera's return from English imprisonment.
The Trams were built in England on milk float bases.
The Grangegorman set is only one of over 80 locations the Michael Collins film used during the shoot.

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