Michael Collins

Michael Collins needs no Formal Introduction. Born on the 16 of october 1890 near Sams Crooss in County Cork. Michael sereed in the 1916 Rising as a captain and after the rising he was sent to a prison in wales. Released befroe christmass Collins came back to Ireland and was involved with the irb. He became the Minister of Finance in the Very first Dail and he was also a Intelligance directer for the IRA. Collins was sent over to london to negotiate the Anglo Irish treaty. The first writen agreement of its type ever between Briton and Ireland. In the Civil War Collins was Commander in Chef of the Irish Free State Army and was Killed in his home County of Cork in a place called Beal na Mblath when his convoy was attacked. He was just 32 years old when he died. RIP Micheál Eoin ó Coileáin. And Happy Birthday

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[Phelan Kerensky]

Then the British Army is the same as the Wehrmacht in Poland

[merryploughboyira]

Ye but then we wouldn't have been able to kill Brits and watch them bleed out like pigs

[Harold Lockwood]

That was because Irish politicians led by John Redmond agreed it could not be implemented until World War I had ended.

[Phelan Kerensky]

tiocfaidh ár lá

[darrin42]

Home Rule was suspended immediately with the outbreak of WW1

[John Jessop]

Home Rule had already been given in 1914. The south could have just waited until the end of World War I, then declared itself a republic.

[Cormac o'rourke]

If it was a fail how come we are a republic now cope on you twat

[John Jessop]

The "freedom" to be a bankrupt slave of the unelected EU, dependent on massive bailouts from the UK and the IMF, with the entire budget dictated by Brussels?

Collins and his fellow terrorists achieved nothing that had not already been decided by Westminster in 1914.

My family was very much affected by the failed terrorist campaign of 1919-1922.

[Stev Blackburn]

only idiots that oppose true freedom would have the audacity to call freedom fighters terrorist you fucking idiot. maybe if it were you and your family dealing with the struggle you would have different views