The Life and Times of Michael Collins
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Birth to 1916
"One day he'll be a great man. He'll do great work for Ireland." - Michael Collins' Father, also named Michael, on his deathbed about his son, who was 6 at the time.
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1916 to 1919
"That valiant effort and the martyrdoms that followed 1916 finally awoke the sleeping spirit of Ireland"
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1919 to 1921
"If my name is to go down in history I want it to be associated with Michael Collins"
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1921 Truce and Treaty Negotiations
"In my opinion it gives us freedom, not the ultimate freedom that all nations desire… but the freedom to achieve it."
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Founding Gardai, Army, Dept Finance
"History recounts the fact that to-day we are a sovereign nation with our own army, our own Gardai and our own flag"