Some Mother's Son (1996)

Fionnula Flanagan: Annie Higgins

Quotes 

• Annie Higgins : Our day will come.

  Kathleen Quigley : And what day is that, Annie?

  Annie Higgins : The day the Brits go home.

  Kathleen Quigley : The day the bloody Brits go home is all you people can think about, isn't it? Well, my life won't change either way.

  Annie Higgins : Well now, your life and my life are two very different things, Missus. My son was shot dead by the British, so you can take your brandy and shove it up your hole!

• Annie Higgins : [Is stopped at a road block]  What the hell is this? How are we supposed to get to our cattle?

  Inspector McPeake : It's to stop your son murdering people and running back across the border down there.

  Annie Higgins : My son would never run from you, McPeake!

  Inspector McPeake : Why don't you go home, Annie, before you get yourself in trouble?

  Theresa Higgins : Come on, Ma! Ignore them!

  Inspector McPeake : [as Annie walks off]  Tell your Frankie we'll get him. No matter what he does.

  Annie Higgins : Tell him yourself!

• Mother Superior : Get out of my school or I'll call the police!

  Annie Higgins : You think I'm scared of the police? You touch my child again and that outfit won't save you!

• Fr. Daly : This is wrong!

  Danny Boyle : What you said in there was an absolute bloody disgrace!

  Fr. Daly : What I said in there is God's law!

  Annie Higgins : You're telling me to betray my son?

  Fr. Daly : It's God's law, Annie! This isn't a protest anymore! These people are using these funerals to win support!

  Danny Boyle : These people are our friends and our families!

  Fr. Daly : [Turns to Annie and Kathleen]  Look, you have to take your sons off. You have the right to choose, you can make a choice!

  Danny Boyle : Leave them alone!

  Annie Higgins : No I don't! It's not my choice to make. Jesus Christ, do you think if it was my choice, I'd let him die?