Mo (2010)

Actors

• Toby Jones (actor)
• Gary Lewis (actor)
• Steven Mackintosh (actor)
• John Lynch (actor)
• Adrian Dunbar (actor)
• Tony Blair (actor)
• Kerry Shale (actor)
• Julie Walters (actress)
• Jeff Pope (producer)
• Catherine Geary (miscellaneous crew)
• John Major (actor)
• Terence Harvey (actor)
• Harry Ditson (actor)
• Tony Maudsley (actor)
• David Haig (actor)

Genres

• Biography
• Drama

Quotes:

[Mo Mowlam and Adam Ingram arrive at a meeting of the Protestant Orangemen who want to stage a march past a staunchly Catholic housing estate]::Adam Ingram: Should I try telling them I've got a season ticket to Ibrox?::Mo Mowlam: Well, at least you're a Prod, Adam, and a bloke. I bet this is the first time there's ever been a fanny in the building.::[as they walk in there is heckling and jeering]::Mo Mowlam: I take that back - the place is *full* of cunts.

[Mo Mowlam is chairing a meeting between Martin McGuinness and Gerry Adams of the Sinn Fein / IRA and Senator George Mitchell who will be chairing the Peace Talks. Both sides are trying to score points off each other. Mo defuses the situation by taking off her wig]::Mo Mowlam: Sometimes aren't there just times when all you want is a bloody good scratch.::Martin McGuinness: I suppose so.::Mo Mowlam: I tell you what, boys. Let's start this meeting again. Only this time, no cocks on the table.::[after the meeting]::Mo Mowlam: How did I do, George?::Senator George Mitchell: I have to say you have the most unorthodox negotiating technique I've ever seen in my life. My answer is: "brilliantly". I think we're in business.

[Mo Mowlam is meeting Loyalist Protestant prisoners in the Maze Prison after Republican IRA Catholic prisoners broke into a Loyalist wing and shot one of their friends dead]::Mo Mowlam: The Irish Republic will renounce all territorial claim on Northern Ireland which will remain part of the UK for as long as the majority here want it to. But everyone will have to make *painful* compromises. People will have to share power with sworn enemies. And perhaps see men back out on the streets who may have killed their friends and family. It'll be very very painful. But the prize is peace - for generations to come. I think you're big enough to grasp it.

[Mo Mowlam has just been on the phone to Reverend Ian Paisley]::Mo Mowlam: Paisley says there are terrorists and at least one homosexual in the building.::Adam Ingram: Well we'd better get Security onto that one. Is he sure there's only *one*?::[they laugh]

[Tony Blair is giving a speech and is thanking all the people who played a part in the Peace Talks. When he mentions Mo Mowlam's name, the audience get to their feet and cheer]::Tony Blair: I think I can say without fear of contradiction that's the first time there's been a standing ovation in the *middle* of a speech. And the person getting the ovation isn't even the person making the speech.

[as Mo Mowlam comes out of the Commons, Peter Mandelson is waiting for her]::Mo Mowlam: What are you doing here?::Peter Mandelson: Observing the Northern Ireland debate.::Mo Mowlam: What the fuck for?::Peter Mandelson: I have a long-standing interest in Northern Irish affairs. My grandfather, as you know, was a very distinguished Unionist.::Mo Mowlam: *Fuck* your grandfather. You're after my job - aren't you?::Peter Mandelson: Of course not. Though a cabinet reshuffle is on the cards and in politics one must never rule anything out.::Mo Mowlam: Don't lie. Smarming round Trimble. Probably telling Tony to sack me too, you devious cunt.::Peter Mandelson: Is this really the demeanour one would expect of a minister of the crown?::Mo Mowlam: You won't *fucking* win!::Peter Mandelson: If you carry on like this, people are going to ask if there's something wrong with you.

Mo Mowlam: [angrily] If you want a friend in politics, buy a fucking dog!

McGuinness, Martin Filmography

• Bright Brand New Day
  2013, role: actor , character name: Himself
• When Hope and History Rhymed
  2011, role: actor , character name: Himself
• The Special Relationship
  2010, role: actor , character name: Himself
• David Trimble: Out in the Cold
  2006, role: actor , character name: Himself
• The Big Heist
  2005, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Battle of the Bogside
  2004, role: actor , character name: Himself
• A House Divided
  2003, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Endgame in Ireland
  2001, role: actor , character name: Himself

Famous quotes by Martin McGuinness:

"I am confident that (Monday) will bring the final chapter on the issue of IRA arms,"

"about more than arms."

"The IRA's decision on July 28th to formally end its armed campaign has changed the political landscape in Ireland forever. I am confident that tomorrow will bring the final chapter on the issue of IRA arms. I believe that Ireland stands on the cusp of a truly historic advance, and I hope that people across the island will respond positively in the time ahead."

"I am confident that tomorrow will bring the final chapter on the issue of IRA arms. I believe that Ireland stands on the cusp of a truly historic advance and I hope that people across the island will respond positively in the time ahead."

"Continuing negative leadership from unionist leaders serves only to further demoralise their own community. Unionist communities deserve better,"

"Collectively we need to challenge the cancer of sectarianism that is eating away at our society,"

"If the DUP is unwilling to break out of its negative cycle and begin to show the positive leadership which the political process and also their own community require and deserve, then the two governments need to push ahead with the full implementation of the [Good Friday] Agreement,"

"I would be very surprised if that was the case, in fact I would be shocked."

"I certainly had a sense that this was someone who wanted to be part of change. . . . I think she wanted to make a contribution, and I think she made a very powerful and worthwhile contribution,"

"I certainly had a sense that this was someone who wanted to be part of change. . . . I think she wanted to make a contribution, and I think she made a very powerful and worthwhile contribution."

"If the British government is prepared to say that the Unionists will not have a veto over British government policy and that guns, vetoes and injustices will all be left outside the door, then there is no good reason why talks cannot take place in an appropriate atmosphere."

"Sinn Fein is the fastest growing party on the island of Ireland."

"Our ability to make a decision about the declaration is hampered by the British government being reluctant to give us the clarification which we require."

"Let's leave beside them in another pile all the injustices which exist in the northern state."

"The fact is that a car used by Gerry Adams and myself during the course of the Mitchell review was bugged by elements within British military intelligence."

"Well I think it has always been a mistake to reduce the peace process in Ireland to a decommissioning process."

"Let us walk into the conference room as equals and not second class citizens."

"Along with that ongoing process Sinn Fein took a decision to establish a peace commission which had the responsibility to travel around the country to receive submissions from the general public, also our opponents."

"The British government says that for Sinn Fein to be involved in talks the guns must be left at the door."

"The most important thing to say is that Sinn Fein isn't going back to anything. We are a party on the move."