Michael Collins and the Financing of Violent Political Struggle 1138214892, 9781138214897

Michael Collins was a pivotal figure in the Irish struggle for independence and his legacy has resonated ever since. Whi

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Michael Collins and the Financing of Violent Political Struggle
1138214892, 9781138214897

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When President of the Irish Republic Michael Collins signed the Anglo-Irish Treaty in December 1921, he remarked to Lord

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Using important material from the archives of General Richard Mulcahy, Collins's chief of staff, as well as persona

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When President of the Irish Republic Michael Collins signed the Anglo-Irish Treaty in December 1921, he remarked to Lord

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Few leaders in history have been as mythologized as Michael Collins. Before his death at 31, he had fought in the Easter

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Why were both sides of the Civil War divide so evasive when it came to the death of Michael Collins? Why were they still

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When President of the Irish Republic Michael Collins signed the Anglo-Irish Treaty in December 1921, he remarked to Lord

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"On 22 August 1922, Michael Collins was shot dead by the anti-Treaty IRA in an ambush at Béalnabláth, in his home c

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'There is no crime in detecting and destroying in wartime the spy and informer... I have paid them back in their ow

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