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On this date in 1919, Dáil na hÉireann, Ireland’s national legislature, met for the first time, as an outlawed body, in defiance of the British imperial establishment. Michael Collins represented Cork South in the First Dáil; while also taking part in organizing the armed campaign for self-determination. (Excerpts from the book:) “On the day of […]
A “long-lost letter” from Michael Collins to his fiancé Kitty Kiernan supports author’s contention about the role she played in the months leading up to his death
(Exceprts from the new book
“The Assassination of Michael Collins: What Happened at Béal na mBláth?”)
“… Some historians have been obliged to play down Michael’s fiancé, in order to support their theories about Lady Lavery, and about his death.
There is no basis for the erroneous characterization of Ms Kiernan as politically naïve. . . . Ms Kiernan was . . . unknown to the public, outside of her relationship with Collins. Collins biographers seem to have written off Ms. Kiernan as clueless and useless politically, on this basis alone.
Clearly Collins did not think so; as an attentive reading of their letters illustrates.
. . . On the contrary, as muse, hostess, networker, companion and confidante, the Kiernan sisters and their hotel may be called the Irish nationalist counterparts, of a London lady’s political salon.”
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“The Assassination of Michael Collins
What Happened At Béal na mBláth?”
by SM Sigerson
This is the first book dedicated to this famous “cold case” since John Feehan’s landmark study of 1981. It presents the most complete overview of the evidence ever published; as well as an itemized catalogue of the various witnesses’ mutual contradictions and corroborations.
Michael Collins’ death mask
From the Introduction:
Why do we need to know?“…There are those who disparage such inquiry. Some characterize this as raising bygone ghosts of a past era, needlessly re-hashing dead issues, etc. But the issues surrounding Michael Collins’ end are very far from closed.
The 26-county Republic of Ireland, and the 6-county Northern Ireland statelet, directly owe their ex-istence, their institutional structures, and much of their history, to Michael Collins’ life and times; to the controversies which culminated in his death; and to the travesties which his death enabled.“
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“The Assassination of Michael Collins:
What Happened At Béal na mBláth?”
by S M Sigerson
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The Assassination of Michael Collins: What Happened At Béal na mBláth? 