Michael Collins Paperback - 1991
by Tim Pat Coogan
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- Title Michael Collins
- Author Tim Pat Coogan
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Condition Used - Acceptable
- Pages 536
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher ARROW (RAND), London
- Date 1991
- Bookseller's Inventory # G0099685809I5N00
- ISBN 9780099685807 / 0099685809
- Weight 0.81 lbs (0.37 kg)
- Dewey Decimal Code 941.508
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When President of the Irish Republic Michael Collins signed the Anglo-Irish Treaty in December 1921, he remarked to Lord Birkenhead, 'I may have signed my actual death warrant.' And in August 1922 during the Irish Civil War, that prophecy came true - Collins was shot and killed by a fellow Irishman in a shocking political assassination. So ended the life of the greatest of all Irish nationalists, but his visions and legacy lived on. This authorative and comprehensive biography presents the life of a man who became a legend in his own lifetime, whose idealistic vigour and determination were matched only by his political realism and supreme organisational abilities. Coogan's biography provides a fascinating insight into a great political leader, whilst vividly portraying the political unrest in a divided Ireland, that can help to shape our understanding of Ireland's recent tumultuous socio-political history.
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Anyone who might have seen the young Michael Collins in a loft on a sunny summer day on the family farm at Woodfield in West Cork a hundred years after the foregoing letter was written would have found it very hard to credit that he would ever survive to march into captivity - or live to smash the system of informers and intelligence-gathering that enabled Major Sirr to be in the right place at the right time to capture Lord Edward Fitzgerald.