"Shake Hands with the Devil," a movie featuring iconic Irish American actor James Cagney that depicts the IRA's battle with the Black and Tans during the Irish War of Independence, is available to watch in full on YouTube. "Shake Hands with the Devil," released in 1959, follows Irish American Kerry O'Shea (Don Murray), a student at Dublin's Royal College of Surgeons during the Irish War of Independence in 1921. As film critic Paul Tatara wrote in 2005: "By the time he [Cagney] starred in Michael Anderson's hard-hitting Irish Republican Army melodrama, 'Shake Hands with the Devil' (1959), he was already considering retirement.