Michael Collins | Captain Collins | Irish Leader | Political Leader | IRA | 1916 | Easter Rising

April 12, 2015 - PRLog -- Michael Collins was an Irish revolutionary leader, Minister for Finance and Teachta Dála for Cork South in the First Dáil of 1919.

Captain Collins was President of the IRB and the Director of Intelligence for the IRA, and member of the Irish delegation during the Anglo-Irish Treaty negotiations.

Mícheál was born in Sam's Cross near Clonakilty in West Cork as Mícheál Seán Ó Coileáin, Collins was the third son and youngest of eight children. Most biographies state his date of birth as 16 October 1890, but his tombstone gives his date of birth as 12 October 1890.

Mícheál was referred to in a British secret service report as "brainy", the Collins family were a close, warmly supportive family of overachievers. They were part of an ancient clan, widely spread over County Cork and had a rich intellectual life and republican connections that can be traced back to the 1798 rebellion.

In 1922, during the Irish Civil War, Collins was shot by the Black and Tans in an ambush at Béal na mBláth in West Cork.

Mícheál is buried in Glasnevin Cemetery in Dublin.

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