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Michael Collins

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Collins, Michael 

Born Oct. 16, 1890, near Clonakilty, County Cork; died Aug. 22, 1922, in Beal-na-Blath. Irish politician and statesman. The son of a farmer.

Collins participated in the Irish rebellion of 1916. In 1918 he became a member of the Irish parliament. He was minister of finance in the revolutionary government of the Sinn Fein from 1919 to 1922. As a plenipotentiary of the Irish delegation, he signed the Anglo-Irish treaty of 1921 that gave Ireland the status of a dominion with Northern Ireland remaining under British rule. In 1922 he became chairman of the provisional government. Collins organized the armed struggle against leftist republican forces.
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Byline: MICHAEL SCULLY MICHAEL COLLINS has accused IFA officials of "living in the Stone Age" and ruining domestic football in the north.
COLLINS' BLAST AT 'STONE AGE' IFA by The Mirror (London, England)
LIFELONG Town fan Bob Knowles' likening of Michael Collins to Fifties favourite Harold Hassall in last Saturday's column was particularly appreciated by another supporter, Eddie Berry.
My part in Hassall link: Eddie by Huddersfield Daily Examiner (Huddersfield, England)
Mr Davey told the court: "The prosecution say the apparent abduction of Michael Collins was a sham, a piece of windowdressing, for the benefit of Tony Pattison, to make him think Michael Collins had been kidnapped as well.
Court told of armed kidnapping by Evening Gazette (Middlesbrough, England)
 
 
 
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