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Michael Collins

Author : Anne Dolan
Publisher : Gill & Macmillan Ltd
ISBN 13 : 178841053X
Total Pages : 587 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (884 download)

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Download or read book Michael Collins written by Anne Dolan and published by Gill & Macmillan Ltd. This book was released on 2018-10-05 with total page 587 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'It was the most providential escape yet. It will probably have the effect of making them think that I am even more mysterious than they believe me to be, and that is saying a good deal.' Michael Collins knew the power of his persona, and capitalised on what people wanted to believe. The image we have of him comes filtered through a sensational lens, exaggerated out of all proportion. We see what we have come to expect: 'the man who won the war', the centre of a web of intelligence that 'brought the British Empire to its knees'. He comes to us as a mixture of truth and lies, propaganda and misunderstanding. The willingness to see him as the sum of the Irish revolution, and in turn reduce him to a caricature of his many parts, clouds our view of both the man and the revolution. Drawing on archives in Ireland, Britain and the United States, the authors question our traditional assumptions about Collins. Was he the man of his age, or was he just luckier, more brazen, more written about and more photographed than the rest? Despite the pictures of him in uniform during the last weeks of his life, Collins saw very little of the actual fight. He was chiefly an organiser and a strategist. Should we remember him as a master of the mundane rather than the romantic figure of the blockbuster film? The eight thematic, highly illustrated chapters scrutinise different aspects of Collins' life: origins, work, war, politics, celebrity, beliefs, death and afterlives. Approaching him through the eyes of contemporaries and historians, friends and enemies, this provocative book reveals new insights, challenging what we think we know about him and, in turn, what we think we know about the Irish revolution.

Michael Collins: The Man Who Made Ireland

Author : Tim Pat Coogan
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312295110
Total Pages : 542 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (951 download)

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Download or read book Michael Collins: The Man Who Made Ireland written by Tim Pat Coogan and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2002-05-17 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the Irish nationalist Michael Collins signed the Anglo-Irish Treaty in December 1921, he observed to Lord Birkenhead that he may have signed his own death warrant. In August 1922 that prophecy came true when Collins was ambushed, shot and killed by a compatriot, but his vision and legacy lived on. Tim Pat Coogan's biography presents the life of a man whose idealistic vigor and determination were matched by his political realism and organizational abilities. This is the classic biography of the man who created modern Ireland.

Michael Collins and the Making of the Irish State

Author : Gabriel Doherty
Publisher : Mercier Press Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1856355128
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (563 download)

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Book Synopsis Michael Collins and the Making of the Irish State by : Gabriel Doherty

Download or read book Michael Collins and the Making of the Irish State written by Gabriel Doherty and published by Mercier Press Ltd. This book was released on 2006 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An evaluation of the contribution made by Michael Collins to the making of the Irish state. A series of specially commissioned essays, written by some of Ireland's leading historians (academic and popular), on the contribution made by Michael Collins to the making of the Irish state. This is a professional evaluation of Michael Collins which brings to light his multi-faceted and complex character. The contributors examine Collins as Minister for Finance, his role in intelligence, his policy towards the north, his career as Commander-in-Chief, the origins of the Civil War, his relationship w.

Ireland's War of Independence 1919-21

Author : Lorcan Collins
Publisher : The O'Brien Press Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1788491467
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (884 download)

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Download or read book Ireland's War of Independence 1919-21 written by Lorcan Collins and published by The O'Brien Press Ltd. This book was released on 2019-05-27 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An accessible overview of Ireland's War of Independence, 1919-21. From the first shooting of RIC constables in Soloheadbeg, Co Tipperary, on 21 January 1919 to the truce in July 1921, the IRA carried out a huge range of attacks on all levels of British rule in Ireland. There are stories of humanity, such as the British soldiers who helped three IRA men escape from prison or the members of the British Army who mutinied in India after hearing about the reprisals being carried out by the Black and Tans in Ireland. The hundreds of thousands of people who celebrated the Centenary of the 1916 Rising with pride and joy are the same people who will appreciate the story of the Irish Republicans who battled against all odds in the next phase of the fight for Ireland between 1919 and 1921.

The Man who Made Ireland

Author : Tim Pat Coogan
Publisher : Roberts Rinehart Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 520 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Man who Made Ireland written by Tim Pat Coogan and published by Roberts Rinehart Publishers. This book was released on 1992 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the life of the man who negotiated for Irish independence and describes the political background of the times. Bibliog.

Michael Collins and the Making of a New Ireland

Author : Piaras S. Béaslaí
Publisher : London : G.G. Harrap [1926]
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 504 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Michael Collins and the Making of a New Ireland written by Piaras S. Béaslaí and published by London : G.G. Harrap [1926]. This book was released on 1925 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Michael Collins and the Anglo-Irish War

Author : J. B. E. Hittle
Publisher : Potomac Books, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1612341284
Total Pages : 453 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (123 download)

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Book Synopsis Michael Collins and the Anglo-Irish War by : J. B. E. Hittle

Download or read book Michael Collins and the Anglo-Irish War written by J. B. E. Hittle and published by Potomac Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2011 with total page 453 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How the British Secret Service failed to neutralize Sinn Fein and the IRA

The Path to Freedom

Author : Michael Collins
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book The Path to Freedom written by Michael Collins and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collins became the first commander-in-chief of the Irish Army while still in his twenties. This book--published to coincide with the release of the film The Big Fellow, based on Collins' life, starring Liam Neeson and Julia Roberts--contains 30 of Collins' articles and speeches in which he evaluates Ireland's heritage and charts its future.

Michael Collins and the Women Who Spied For Ireland

Author : Meda Ryan
Publisher : Mercier Press Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1856358607
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (563 download)

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Download or read book Michael Collins and the Women Who Spied For Ireland written by Meda Ryan and published by Mercier Press Ltd. This book was released on 2011-07-11 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Michael Collins and the Women Who Spied for Ireland is the first book to concentrate on the crucial role played by women in Collins's personal and working life. From his boyhood in an overwhelmingly female household in West Cork, women brought out the best in him and he brought out the best in them. Susan Killeen, his first girlfriend, remained a steadfast ally throughout his life. From 1917, his girlfriend, Madeline (Dilly) Dicker, helped to ease the burden of his huge workload as well as acting as a secret agent. Society ladies Moya Llewelyn Davies and Lady Hazel Lavery were conduits between Collins and the British Establishment and active participants in his work of espionage. In the final years of his life the true romantic passion between him and Kitty Kiernan is testified to by their frequent correspondence.These women, and many others who participated in the national struggle, women such as Kathleen Clarke, Leslie Price, Peg Barrett, Nancy O'Brien, Madge Hales and Collins' sister Mary Collins Powell, are woven into this fascinating narrative of Collins' life.

Michael Collins

Author : Tim Pat Coogan
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1784975362
Total Pages : 1008 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (849 download)

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Download or read book Michael Collins written by Tim Pat Coogan and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-12-16 with total page 1008 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.' 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.

Killing Rage

Author : Eamon Collins
Publisher : Granta Books
ISBN 13 : 9781862070479
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book Killing Rage written by Eamon Collins and published by Granta Books. This book was released on 1998 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the 1970s people have been murdering their neighbours in Northern Ireland. This book is the true account of the small-town violence and terror which lies behind the headlines.

The Great Cover-Up

Author : Gerard Murphy
Publisher : Gill & Macmillan Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1788410424
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (884 download)

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Download or read book The Great Cover-Up written by Gerard Murphy and published by Gill & Macmillan Ltd. This book was released on 2018-06-08 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why were both sides of the Civil War divide so evasive when it came to the death of Michael Collins? Why were they still trying to effect cover-ups as late as the 1960s? Determined to find the truth despite the trails of deception left by many of the key players, Gerard Murphy, a scientist, looked in detail at the evidence. Previous researchers have tended to concentrate on the reminiscences of survivors. Murphy instead focuses on information that appeared in the immediate wake of the ambush, before attempts could be made to conceal the truth. He also examines newly released material, and has carried out a forensic analysis of the ambush site based on photographic evidence of the aftermath recently discovered in a Dublin attic. These investigations have unearthed significant new evidence, overlooked for almost a century, that seriously questions the version of events currently accepted by historians.

Big Fellow, Long Fellow. A Joint Biography of Collins and De Valera

Author : T. Ryle Dwyer
Publisher : Gill & Macmillan Ltd
ISBN 13 : 0717157466
Total Pages : 530 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (171 download)

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Download or read book Big Fellow, Long Fellow. A Joint Biography of Collins and De Valera written by T. Ryle Dwyer and published by Gill & Macmillan Ltd. This book was released on 2006-09-12 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Michael Collins and Eamon de Valera were the two most charismatic leaders of the Irish revolution. This joint biography looks first at their very different upbringings and early careers. Both fought in the 1916 Easter Rising , although it is almost certain they did not meet during that tumultuous week. Their first encounter came when Collins had been released from jail after the rising but de Valera was still inside. Collins was one of those who wanted to run a Sinn Féin candidate in the Longford by-election of 1917. De Valera and other leaders opposed this initiative but the Collins group went ahead anyway and the candidate won narrowly. The incident typified the relationship between the two men: they were vastly different in temperament and style. But it was precisely in their differences and contradictions that their fascination lay. De Valera, the political pragmatist, hoped to secure independence through political agitation, whereas the ambitious Collins, with his restless temperament and boundless energy, was an impassioned patriot who believed in terror and assassination. T. Ryle Dwyer examines the years, 1917-22 through the twists and turns of their careers. In an epilogue, he considers the legacy of Collins on de Valera's political life.

Michael Collins

Author : Chrissy Osborne
Publisher : Mercier Press Ltd
ISBN 13 : 185635718X
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (563 download)

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Download or read book Michael Collins written by Chrissy Osborne and published by Mercier Press Ltd. This book was released on 2010 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a unique collection of photographs that catalogue the life of Michael Collins. The photos follow Collins from his childhood and into the political turbulence of the era. The book includes many illustrations of the buildings and locations he would have known in Ireland and Britain but as they are today.

The Big Fellow:

Author : Frank O'Connor
Publisher : Mercier Press Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1781175594
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (811 download)

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Download or read book The Big Fellow: written by Frank O'Connor and published by Mercier Press Ltd. This book was released on 2018-02-02 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Re-issued with an introduction by Neil Jordan, 'The Big Fellow' is the 1937 biography of the famed Irish leader Michael Collins by acclaimed author Frank O'Connor. It is an uncompromising but humane study of Collins, whose stature and genius O'Connor recognised. A masterly, evocative portrait of one of Ireland's most charismatic figures, 'The Big Fellow' covers the period of Collins' life from the Easter Rising in 1916 to his death in 1922 during the Irish Civil War. The author, having served with the Anti-Treaty IRA during the Irish Civil War, wrote 'The Big Fellow' as a form of reparation over the guilt he felt with regards to taking up arms against his fellow Irishmen and Collins' untimely death. Liam Neeson has said that he found the book of great assistance when preparing for the role of Collins in the 1996 film directed by Neil Jordan.

Michael Collins: The Lost Leader

Author : Margery Forester
Publisher : Gill & Macmillan Ltd
ISBN 13 : 071715761X
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (171 download)

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Download or read book Michael Collins: The Lost Leader written by Margery Forester and published by Gill & Macmillan Ltd. This book was released on 2006-09-12 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In print continuously for more than thirty years, this book is long established as a reliable and affectionate portrait of Michael Collins. First, published in 1971, its great strength is that the author was able to interview Collins' surviving contemporaries and was offered unrestricted access to personal and family material. Michael Collins: The Lost Leader has been praised by authorities such as Robert Kee and Maurice Manning and remains compulsive reading even today.

The 13th Apostle

Author : Dermot McEvoy
Publisher : Skyhorse
ISBN 13 : 1628739231
Total Pages : 592 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (287 download)

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Download or read book The 13th Apostle written by Dermot McEvoy and published by Skyhorse. This book was released on 2014-02-04 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story—both romantic and terrifying—of how a handful of men, armed with nothing more than handguns and guts, forced the greatest nation in the world from their shores. On Easter Monday, April 24, 1916, the first great revolution of the twentieth century began as working-class men and women occupied buildings throughout Dublin, Ireland, including the general post office on O’Connell Street. Among the commoners in the GPO was a young staff captain of the Irish Volunteers named Michael Collins. He was joined a day later by a fourteen-year-old messenger boy, Eoin Kavanagh. Four days later they would all surrender, but they had struck the match that would burn Great Britain out of Ireland for the first time in seven hundred years. The 13th Apostle is the reimagined story of how Michael Collins, along with his young acolyte Eoin, transformed Ireland from a colony into a nation. Collins’s secret weapon was his intelligence system and his assassination squad, nicknamed “The Twelve Apostles.” On November 21, 1920, the squad—with its thirteenth member, young Eoin—assassinated the entire British Secret Service in Dublin. Twelve months and sixteen days later, Collins signed the Treaty at 10 Downing Street, which brought into being what is, today, the Republic of Ireland. An epic novel in the tradition of Thomas Flanagan’s The Year of the French and Leon Uris’s Trinity, The 13th Apostle is a story that will capture the imagination and hearts of freedom-loving readers everywhere. Skyhorse Publishing, as well as our Arcade, Yucca, and Good Books imprints, are proud to publish a broad range of books for readers interested in fiction—novels, novellas, political and medical thrillers, comedy, satire, historical fiction, romance, erotic and love stories, mystery, classic literature, folklore and mythology, literary classics including Shakespeare, Dumas, Wilde, Cather, and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.