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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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Micheal Collins of Trinity College Dublin earned EUR46,500 while EUR41,300 was paid to Mary O'Sullivan of the Irish Banking Federation and accountant Mary Walsh was paid EUR38,850.
Also Micheal Collins, who was involved in setting up the procedures for the DRA, is involved so there has been some overlap that way.
 
 
 
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