Michael Collins and the troubles: the struggle for Irish freedom, 1912-1922 9780393347180, 0393347184

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

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English Pages 224 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates Year 1996

Michael Collins and the troubles: the struggle for Irish freedom, 1912-1922
9780393347180, 0393347184

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As leader of the Irish Republican Brotherhood and then the Irish Republican Army (IRA), Michael Collins developed a bold

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

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

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August 2019 marks the 50th anniversary of an eruption of armed violence that traumatised Northern Ireland and transforme

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The story of the man who fired the first shot in the War of Independence, leader of the 3rd Tipperary Brigade. In 1919 a

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