Michael Collins

Michael Collins was an Irish revolutionary, soldier, and politician who was a leading figure in the early-20th-century Irish struggle for independence. From Cork, he was Chairman of the Provisional Government of the Irish Free State from January 1922 until his assassination in August 1922.

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Michael Collins

Former MEP Mary Banotti leaves over 1ドル.4m in her will – as well as love letters from Michael Collins to Kitty Kiernan

The good, the bad and the Oirish: Our critics give their take on the best- and worst- of Irish film

Fionnán Sheahan: Pothole politics can win over Donald Trump for Micheál Martin, but ‘Top Gun’ Tánaiste could do with diplomacy lessons

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Dispute over payment of compensation to family of Irish soldier shot by Michael Collins’s Squad

State paid 2ドル.3m for Bonar Law map collection

Frank Coughlan: Ireland’s forgotten resistance heroes are a lesson in courage

Roslyn Dee: Art of letter-writing reveals the author – a feat beyond mere emails

Jack Chambers appointed Finance Minister as Michael McGrath nominated for EU Commission

Obituary: Mary Banotti, grand-niece of Michael Collins, an MEP for two decades and a lifelong activist on social issues who made a significant contribution to Irish life

John Daly: There’s no finer feeling than belting out Peadar Kearney’s stirring ‘Amhrán na bhFiann’

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Conor Dodd’s Casualties of Conflict is a poignant commemoration of the souls resting in Glasnevin Cemetery

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