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| | Michael Collins (Irish leader) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Collins proposed that the Free State would have a republican constitution, with no mention of the British King, without repudiating the Treaty, a compromise acceptable to all but the most intransigent republicans. | | | Michael's father, also called Michael Collins, had become a member of the republican Fenian movement when younger, but had left the movement and settled down to farming. | | | Like all senior Sinn Féin members, Michael Collins was nominated to seek a seat in the 1918 general election to elect Irish MPs to the British House of Commons in London. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Collins_(Irish_leader)
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| | WPA - Demos - Michael Collins |
| | Collins is quoted to have said on signing the treaty, "I may have signed my actual death warrant." On traveling to West County Cork, his birthplace, on August 22, 1922 he was assassinated in an ambush by Republican extremists. | | | August 22, 1922: Michael Collins (1890-1922), Irish Revolutionary Leader during the Irish Civil War, led the Old IRA in attempts to overrun British rule in Ireland. |
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http://www.wpafilmlibrary.com/archive_collins.html
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| | Michael Collins - Ireland of the Times |
| | The Irish leader, Daniel O'Connell, spoke against the Act at a public meeting held at the Royal Exchange in 1800. | | | After his death Collins was laid in state in City Hall in August 1922. | | | This rebellion led to the Act of Union of 1800, which abolished the independent Irish Parliament and united it with the Parliament in London. |
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http://michaelcollins.warnerbros.com/cmp/ireland.html
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| | BBC NEWS Northern Ireland Examining Irish leader's youthful past |
| | Collins, one of the most controversial figures in Irish history, fought in the 1916 Easter Rising against the British and on his release from prison, became the foremost nationalist guerrilla leader in the Irish War of Independence. | | | But he was a signatory to the treaty with Britain which brought about the partition of Ireland, creating the Irish Free State, an act which he prophesied was akin to signing his own death warrant. | | | He led the pro-treaty forces against the republicans opposed to partition in the bitter civil war which followed, and in which he lost his life in 1922, aged 31. |
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/3915341.stm
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| | Michael Collins |
| | Michael's father was 75 when Michael, the youngest of the 8 children, was born. | | | Collins used his connections made when he was Secretary of the National Aid. | | | Collins was crushed by the deaths of his friends. |
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http://www.geocities.com/CollegePark/Theater/4698/mick.html
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| | Michael Collins - Politics.ie Wiki |
| | On his release he became a member of the Supreme Council of the IRB and was Minister for Home Affairs in the First Dáil Éireann and later Minister of Finance. | | | He temporarily resigned from the Government in June, 1922 to become Commander-in-Chief of the Irish Free State Army. | | | He was a delegate in the Anglo-Irish Treaty negotiations in London in December, 1921. |
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http://www.politics.ie/wiki/index.php?title=Michael_Collins
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| | Michael Collins - Biography |
| | Almost 20 years later, Griffith and Michael Collins would be the most important Irish representatives in the Treaty negotiations with Britain. | | | In November 1909 he was inducted into the Irish Republican Brotherhood (IRB). | | | Every week he read the nationalist newspapers "The Freeman's Weekly" and "The Leader". |
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http://michaelcollins.warnerbros.com/cmp/biography.html
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| | Michael Collins |
| | He played a large part in persuading his colleagues to accept the British terms that established the Irish Free States as a self governing dominion of the British Commonwealth and was largely responsible for engineering the Dails ratification of the treaty in January 1922. | | | At age 17, he went to London to work as a postal clerk and it was there that he joined the Irish Republican Brotherhood. | | | He was born on October 16, 1890, near Clonakilty, County Cork, the youngest of eight children. |
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http://alumni.imsa.edu/~paulb/irish/history/collins.html
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| | EAMON DEVALERA: AN IRISH LEADER |
| | He was born in New York on the 14th of October in 1882 to Catherine Coll (a young Irish immigrant from County Limerick) and Juan Vivion DeValera (an immigrant of Spanish origin). | | | The subsequent Anglo-Irish Treaty was ratified by the Dáil in 1922 but DeValera opposed both the partition of the country and the Oath of Allegiance to the English crown that the Treaty required. | | | He returned home and sent a delegation led by Michael Collins to negotiate a settlement. |
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http://www.irishtreats.com/Eamonn_Devalera.htm
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| | Corpus of Electronic Texts Edition |
| | Subsequently Collins became Chairman of the Executive Council (in effect the Government) of the Irish Free State which emerged, and, later, Commander-in-Chief of the Army. | | | However Michael senior died when young Michael was six, leaving Marianne to run the farm and look after the eight children. | | | Collins, who took the leading part in the Treaty's negotiation, faced one of the most powerful British delegations ever assembled. |
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http://finegael.csn.ul.ie/nuke/politics/irish/pathToFreedom.htm
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| | Michael Collins |
| | William Thomas Cosgrave - Cosgrave, William Thomas, 1880–1965, Irish statesman; father of Liam Cosgrave. | | | Collins's reputation as freedom fighter and hero suffer irreparably when he finally compromises with the British, leaving Northern Ireland under crown rule. | | | 'There's never a dull moment.' (Los Angeles Convention and Visitors Bureau senior vice president Michael Collins) |
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http://www.infoplease.com/ipea/A0161050.html
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| | Michael Collins |
| | Collins, with the help of his friend Harry Boland,helps Eamon de Valera escape from Lincoln gaol in England. | | | Sinn Fein wins 73 seats at Westminster; Collins elected to Parliament representing South Cork | | | first season of the Dail; Declaration of Independence read; civil war of Republicans against Unionists to drive the British out; Irish Republican Army fights a guerrilla action under Michael Collins |
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http://www.vernonjohns.org/snuffy1186/collins.html
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| | Amazon.com: Michael Collins: DVD: Ian Hart,Julia Roberts,Richard Ingram,Liam Neeson,Aidan Quinn,John Kenny,Ronan ... |
| | He admitted it was his downfall and felt guilty of michael collins his great friend's death. | | | He indeed projects the power and charisma of a great leader in his "our refusal" speech. | | | Neil Jordan returns to the strife-torn Irish political landscape for this real-life epic set in 1920 and starring Liam Neeson as the legendary Irish revolutionary leader and Julia Roberts as his headstrong fiancee. |
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0790729407?v=glance
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| | But Jordan thinks Collins had a more tangible legacy as head of Ireland's provisional government. | | | Armed with a treaty, he returned home to persuade his former allies to accept a free but divided Ireland. | | | But Jordan also turns a beloved Irish leader into a heavy: Former Prime Minister Eamon De Valera, played expertly by Alan Rickman, first mentors Collins and then bitterly rejects him and his treaty. |
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http://www.mosquitonet.com/~prewett/antibritsym.html
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| | Michael Collins: Ireland's Lost Leader |
| | Friends and family members attend; ranks swelled with visitors. | | | ighty-four years ago, rifle shots rang out over a lonely West Cork road and claimed the life of Ireland's seemingly invincible leader. | | | Santry was the local blacksmith whose own father had forged pikes for earlier risings, and Lyons the Lisavaird schoolmaster, a member of the Irish Republican Brotherhood of which Michael himself was to join and later become its secretary and president. |
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http://www.irelandforvisitors.com/articles/lost_leader.htm
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| | Famous Irish - Michael Collins |
| | Michael Collins was one of Ireland's greatest patriots and a founding leader of the Irish Republican Army. | | | A film called "Michael Collins" tells his life story. | | | Tell us who you would like to see as Famous Irish. |
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http://www.irishclans.com/articles/famirish/collinsmmain.html
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| | Irish rebel Collins' papers published - (United Press International) |
| | He led the forces against the republicans opposed to partition in the civil war which followed, and was killed in 1922 at the age of 31. | | | Collins fought in the 1916 Easter Rising against the British and on his release from prison, became the foremost nationalist guerrilla leader in the Irish war of independence. | | | Historian Brian Murphy says the writing appears to be geared to what the young Collins thought the government wanted to hear, as opposed to his own separatist beliefs. |
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http://www.washtimes.com/upi-breaking/20040722-125758-9936r.htm
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| | Fenian articles on Encyclopedia.com |
| | Phoenix Park murders PHOENIX PARK MURDERS [Phoenix Park murders] name given to the assassination on May 6, 1882, of Lord Frederick Cavendish, British secretary for Ireland, and Thomas Henry Burke, his undersecretary, in Phoenix Park, Dublin. | | | It was known variously as the Fenian Brotherhood, Fenian Society, Irish Republican Brotherhood, and Irish-American | | | Fenian movement FENIAN MOVEMENT [Fenian movement] or Fenians, secret revolutionary society organized c.1858 in Ireland and the United States to achieve Irish independence from England by force. |
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http://www.encyclopedia.com/searchpool.asp?target=Fenian
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| | "COLLINS' TERRORIST AS HERO |
| | The best Collins could negotiate was self-government for the south of Ireland with an oath of allegiance to the Crown still required. | | | His Collins is shown to have been a patriot who was grievously compromised by his dedication to ending British rule in his homeland. | | | Collins, who knows he's no diplomat, understands that he's being set up to take the fall for De Valera. |
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http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/e/a/1996/10/25/WEEKEND973.dtl
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| | Michael Collins -- Encyclopædia Britannica |
| | He helped form the Irish Republican Army (IRA) and led them in their first uprising against British troops. | | | Michael Collins was a leader in Ireland's fight for independence from the British in the early 20th century. | | | He served in the United States Navy as an officer and was selected for the NASA space travel program in 1962. |
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http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9024785
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| | Amazon.com: Michael Collins: Books: Tim Pat Coogan |
| | Lloyd George, Sinn Fein, Michael Collins, Provisional Government, Northern Ireland, Prime Minister, Free State, Four Courts, Arthur Griffith, Irish Republic, Cathal Brugha, Sir Henry Wilson, Chief Secretary, Dublin Castle, Harry Boland, Mansion House, Boundary Commission, Dail Eireann, Tom Cullen, West Cork, Rory O'Connor, Liam Tobin, Bonar Law, Great Britain, House of Commons | | | Michael Collins was an extraordinary man, the inventor, it is said, of modern urban guerilla warfare; the man who led the war to end 700 years of British occupation of Ireland. | | | 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. |
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0091741068?v=glance
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| | Michael Collins -- The Irish in Film |
| | It was a war that was not a war, yet, Collins and his men, through perseverance, brought about a treaty with England and the establishment of the Irish Free State. | | | This film covers Ireland's struggle for independence from 1916 to 1922. | | | After the disastrous Easter Rebellion against British troops, Michael Collins, an Irish nationalist leader of Sinn Fein, transformed the Irish army into guerrilla fighters, which later became the IRA. |
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http://www.irishfilm.net/blurbs/MCs.html
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| | Collins |
| | De Valera was one of the greatest leaders of this century; a man who stuck to is faith, a man of principle, a man dedicated to peace and justice, a soldier who fought for freedom, a man who followed his conscience. | | | A perspective from a group of American politicians | | | In Ireland, where national pride is a passion close to religion and romantic love, one man became a legend for his fierce devotion to his land and its independence. |
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http://www.uea.ac.uk/~m242/historypgce/ict/collins.htm
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| | Movie Review - Michael Collins - eFilmCritic |
| | I've been in Irish bars in America that serve a cocktail called an 'Irish Carbomb'. | | | 'Michael Collins' tries to convince us that it's telling the true story the Irish Republican leader in the 1920's and how he was treated by the British Government. | | | It was the British Navy not the US, that captured the Enigma device in 'U-571' (in actual fact the U-571 was never captured). |
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http://efilmcritic.com/hbs.cgi?movie=627
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| | Although Fine Gael was founded more than a decade after Michael Collins was shot, the party lays claim to his heritage because he served in Government with many of their founder members. | | | Fine Gael MEP Simon Coveney said Collins had a deep desire to see a United Ireland and was committed to peaceful means. | | | A 1996 Neil Jordan film on Collins and 80th anniversary celebrations of his death two years ago sparked a resurgence of interest in one of the key figures in the Irish war of independence. |
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http://www.utvlive.com/newsroom/indepth.asp?id=49485&pt=n
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| | FILM REVIEW -- `Collins' Looks Good But Has Chilly Heart |
| | ``Michael Collins'' stars Neeson as the stormy Irish political leader. | | | The two men part company when De Valera sends Collins to London to negotiate with the British, and Collins returns with a treaty establishing an Irish Free State -- but giving the British direct control of a partitioned north. | | | With the exception of wooden Julia Roberts as Collins' farm-bred girlfriend, the casting is right on the mark for this account of Irish revolutionaries after the 1916 Easter rebellion against England's centuries-old occupation of Ireland. |
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http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/1996/10/25/DD49050.DTL
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| | Michael Collins - The Lost Leader |
| | At the Treaty negotiations in London, Lord Birkenhead remarked to Michael Collins: | | | "I may have just signed my political death-warrant", whereupon Collins replied, |
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