Michael Collins Centenary, Co. Cork, Ireland 1990
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- Events mark the centenary of the birth of Michael Collins including the launch of a new biography of the Irish revolutionary.
Michael Collins was born in Woodfield in West Cork in 1890.
The shadow of Michael Collins still lies over the entire island.
The youngest of eight children he was raised on a small holding. Michael Collins was just six years old when his father, also called Michael, died. On his death bed, his father predicted that Michael would go on to do great things for Ireland.
Michael Collins was killed in an ambush at Béal na Bláth on 22 August 1922 at the age of 31.
At a launch at Kilmainham Gaol of ‘Michael Collins A Biography’ by Tim Pat Coogan and the author says that had he lived, Michael Collins would have made Ireland a different place.
If he wasn’t a genius, he certainly had elements of genius.
This week also saw the opening of a memorial centre at Collins’s old homestead in Woodfield which was officially opened by President Patrick Hillery.
An RTÉ News report broadcast on 16 October 1990. The reporter is Colm Connolly.
The big fella, Ireland’s great hero🇮🇪 R.I.P 🙏
"""The amount of Anything is what your prepared to risk your life for...---- R.I.P. Michael --- Go ráibh máith agát. """🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🙏🙏🙏.......
Just finished my tattoo that I got as a mark of respect for Michael today
👋 sister everything ok 👌 with ya 🐺 was asking for ya.
Rest in peace general Michael Collins you were a brave man 🙏🇮🇪
God Bless Éireann.☘🇮🇪
Wonder what he'd think of the place now
He would be appalled Ireland today is not what they died for
Not shower I want to know the anwser to that question
Would’ve stayed in bed probably
How many kids today would know who Michael Collins was
Dont know about any other schools but a couple years ago in primary, we would learn about 1916 every year and touch on the war of independence aswell as Michael Collins and the Flying Columns. Hope other schools are doing the same now.
@@United-Nations what you learn at school is easily forgot especially if it doesn't mean anything to you
Go to Dublin and believe me they do
Not Enough. We Must Teach Them.☘🇮🇪
Dev has now been written out of history..If he was so "unpopular" why was his government elected to power on so many occasions by the Irish people. I met Dev as a child on at least three occasions. My Dad would have literally given his life for Dev as many more would have done back in those years..
I Still Blame Dev For This Didn't Have The Guts To Go To England Himself ( Coward )
He was in England before the treaty negotiations took place.
@@antseanbheanbocht4993 Yes But Wouldn't Go And Sign It Himself As I Said ( Coward )
@@danbreen6946 why would he sign it? He went to England before Collins and rejected similar terms
@@shredder9536 So when he sent Collins did he think the terms were going to be better I think not as I said ( Coward )
@@shredder9536 He didn't reject it he sent Collins go to reject it he was a pussy De Meta he and Churchill where both overrated facists
Ohh Michael we have let u down badly
🙏🏻🇮🇪🙏🏻
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 snowflake
He saw the future when he said he signed his death warrant indeed the treaty was in a way a death warrant in what it brought to Ireland it didn't bring about what was fought for a 32 county republic. He went to the most dangerous part of the country and paid for it
@Greg Collins was shot by Emmet Dalton, a British secret service agent.
His father was some man to get married and have 8 children so late in his life ! especially a way back in that time period .
a great man , as dan breen said he was a god ,
A wery good man.
Let me pose this question. Did Fine Gael represent any of what Michael Collins fought for...and why according to the experts when Dev was the baddie did he manage to win election after election..."From the formation of the first Fianna Fáil government on 9 March 1932 until the 2011 general election, the party was in power for 61 of 79 years. Its longest continuous period in office was 15 years and 11 months (March 1931 - February 1948)."...
And very naive, to ride around in an open top carriage in a red hot republican area..
True I supose but as Michael said to Emmet Dalton they'll never kill me in my own county plus the fact that he had lots of near misses and cowed the most powerful empire in the world probably made him think he was invincible great as Michael was he was still only human and as sucepital to vanity as the rest of us.
Yeah but it was his area.