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  Michael Collins (astronaut) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Michael Collins (born in Rome, October 31, 1930) was an astronaut in the Gemini and Apollo space programs.
Collins orbited the Moon in the CSM "Columbia", while his colleagues Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed and walked on the lunar surface.
Collins has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, and a small lunar crater (near the Apollo 11 landing site) and asteroid 6471 are named in his honor.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Michael_Collins_(astronaut)   (493 words)

  
 Michael Collins (Irish leader) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Michael Collins was born in Sam's Cross, near Clonakilty, in County Cork, Ireland in 1890.
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.
Collins was recorded as being a bright and precocious child, with a fiery temper and a passionate nationalism, spurred on by a local flsmith, James Santry, and later by a local school headmaster, Denis Lyons, a member of the Irish Republican Brotherhood (an organization Collins would eventually become the leader of).
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Michael_Collins_(Irish_leader)   (3314 words)

  
 Michael Collins
Michael Collins was born October 16th, 1890 in the village of County Cork on his father's farm.
Collins' participation in the infamous Easter Rebellion was not in an official leadership position at first, but his character, determination, and devotion to the cause quickly won him many followers.
Not only was Collins' death not as much of a trap as it seems, but he was not struck cleanly by a sniper; Michael Collins was struck by a ricochet bullet during the gun fight.
www.glue.umd.edu /~sschreib/autumn_02/investigations/collins2.html   (2409 words)

  
 Military History Online - Michael Collins: A Beloved Irish Patriot
Collins began to realize the time was right for Ireland to gain her independence from England when she became involved in World War I. The idea for this realization was that England was fighting to help liberate small countries and even larger countries from oppression and occupation from other countries.
Collins was still only in his twenties and he was put in charge of advertising the loan, collecting it and issuing the receipts; and yet he was directing the campaign of guerrilla warfare and headed the intelligence agency in Ireland.
Michael Collins took the initiative to set up Ireland as a free government, he wanted the government to be strong and he was willing to do almost anything to ensure that it was done as long as it was the government for the Irish people.
www.militaryhistoryonline.com /20thcentury/articles/MichaelCollins.aspx   (4424 words)

  
 Michael Collins
Michael Collins was born in to the O'Coileain clan on October 16, 1890.
Collins was made the Commander in Chief of the Irish Army and lead her in to a battle against her brothers in the IRA.
Michael Collins hated the idea of a civil war, but he was forced to fight it, in the hopes of returning to peace.
www.nadn.navy.mil /EnglishDept/ilv/collins.htm   (2985 words)

  
 Michael Collins
Collins' intelligence organisation was now in a position to exert considerable pressure on the British Secret Service in Ireland and by the end of 1921 an estimated 80 agents had been executed, by which time the service ceased to function effectively.
Michael Collins was a leading member of the Irish delegation which met Prime Minister Lloyd George, Winston Churchill and prominent British leaders.
Collins was prepared to recognise the legitimate aspirations of those who were not nationalists by the possible formation of a federal state.
www.oswaldmosley.com /people/collins.html   (1928 words)

  
 Michael Collins
Michael Collins had been involved in the Easter Uprising in 1916, but he played a relatively low key part.
Michael Collins was born in October 1890 in County Cork.
Collins was elected to the executive committee of Sinn Fein and he led a violent campaign against anything that represented British authority in Ireland - primarily the Royal Irish Constabulary (RIC) and the Army.
www.historylearningsite.co.uk /michael_collins.htm   (1044 words)

  
 Michael Collins' Web Page
Michael Collins declared that he was a soldier, not a politician, but the issue went to the Cabinet and was decided by de Valera's casting vote.
Michael Collins knew that a Republic that included Ulster was not possible under the present conditions, but he hoped for a boundary commission that would redraw the border to include much of Catholic Fermanagh and Tyrone in the newly created Free State.
MICHAEL COLLINS, Leon O'Broin (Gill and Macmillan, Dublin 1980)
www2.cruzio.com /~sbarrett/mcollins.htm   (2489 words)

  
 Michael Collins   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Michael Collins was born in Cork in 1890.
Collins was imprisoned in Frongoch internment camp where his credentials as a leader were further recognised by his captured comrades.
Collins and Arthur Griffith had been sent to London as the Irish delegation because DeValera knew that the ultimate aim - independence - was not attainable.
www.ireland-information.com /articles/michaelcollins.htm   (380 words)

  
 Famous Irish- Michael Collins   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Michael Collins was born on the 16th of October 1890 near Clonakilty, County Cork, Ireland, the last child of Michael John Collins and Marianne O'Brien.
Michael was also an avid reader, which included the works of Shakespeare and the famous novelists of the 19th century.
Michael Collins himself was made president of the Supreme Council as well as commander of the IRA (Army of the Irish Republic).
www.irishclans.com /articles/famirish/collinsm.html   (1216 words)

  
 Michael Collins hero file   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Collins is appointed by the Dáil Éireann on 14 September as a delegate to the treaty negotiations in London.
A provisional government is formed with Collins as chairman, but effective administration is obstructed by the mutinous activities of the anti-treaty republicans.
Collins realised the Anglo-Irish treaty was compromised and could lead to his assassination.
www.moreorless.au.com /heroes/collins.html   (473 words)

  
 Biography of Artist Michael Collins - wildlife painting, engraving, gun & knife design, intaglios, sculpture
Michael was born and raised in South Carolina where he first learned to appreciate nature at the side of his stepfather, who was an avid outdoorsman and conservationist.
Michael is still considered one of the few true scrimshaw artist in the world today and a world class engraver.
Michael feels one of his greatest achievements is having Athos Menaboni suggest that Michael be the one to do the restoration work on his murals.
www.natureartists.com /artists/artist_biography.asp?ArtistID=1010   (821 words)

  
 Review: Michael Collins   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
For, in truth, Michael Collins is as much the story of the birth pangs of the torn, troubled state as it is of one man's rise and fall.
Collins is not the brash hero of the traditional historical epic -- he's a tormented individual who knows that his chief talent is for creating mayhem, but who wants peace so desperately that he's willing to die for it.
Michael Collins, like William Wallace, fought for independence, and, in the end, was its victim.
movie-reviews.colossus.net /movies/m/michael_collins.html   (1053 words)

  
 Michael Collins - Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Michael Collins was born at Woodfield, Clonakilty, in County Cork in 1890.
Michael's own teacher, Denis Lyons, was a member of the Fenian organisation, the IRB (Irish Republican Brotherhood) and was to prove an inspirational figure.
Years later Michael Collins was to recall that, "In Denis Lyons and James Santry I had my first tutors capable of, because of their personalities alone, infusing into me pride of the Irish as a race."
michaelcollins.warnerbros.com /cmp/biography.html   (894 words)

  
 Michael Collins (1996)
Michael is hugely sceptical of this approach, mindful of the 1916 debacle, and is thus more open to the contact of Ned Broy (Stephen Rea), a G-man.
The driving force of Sinn Fein in its early days, Collins is portrayed as an everyman (unknown enough to walk the streets safely) who happens to realise that fighting the British on their own terms is suicide.
Michael Collins is fine when it sticks to broad strokes across the canvas of history, illustrating how the use of violence as a last resort has been perverted into the first resort today.
www.film.u-net.com /Movies/Reviews/Michael_Collins.html   (849 words)

  
 Michael Collins Visit 2004
Collins confessed he wasn't used to signing "Michael." Preferring "Mike" or simply "M"., but still signed "Michael," per our request, with varying degrees of success, when he did a good one, he would say "There's the Michael!", or conversely "there goes the Michael again".
Collins is admittedly fussy about inscriptions, preferring not to have "words put in my mouth" which is why he writes his own books without any assistance from professional authors, very confident of his own skills in literature and English.
General Collins kept saying how impressed he was with our gallery, the crew, our preparation and profesionality, which we love to hear, as it bodes well for a return and hopefully some good word of mouth to other astronauts.
www.novaspace.com /AUTO/SIGNINGS/CollinsVisit2004.html   (692 words)

  
 Famous Irish Lives - Michael Collins
Collins was born near Sam's Cross, Clonakilty, Co Cork, on 16 October 1890.
In the ensuing guerrilla warfare, Collins' special squad systematically assassinated members of the 'G' division of the Dublin police, Dublin Castle's main source of intelligence; he had his own informants at detective headquarters.
Collins' family home in Cork was burned out in April 1921.
www.irelandseye.com /aarticles/history/people/whoswho/collins.shtm   (353 words)

  
 Amazon.co.uk: DVD: Michael Collins [1996]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Collins' commitment to Irish freedom was enfused with a deep realism rather than a sentimentalism, and his ruthlessness and bravery in war were matched only by a deep humanity, an almost boyish vulnerability and commitment to making peace.
The loss of Collins was a major one for Ireland and the Irish, and yet his spirit and principles cast a longer shadow than those that opposed him and those who killed him.
Michael Collins was born in 1890 in West Cork, a farmer's son, and introduced to the quest for Irish sovereignty by his schoolmaster, a member of the Irish Republican Brotherhood, which Collins soon joined as well and in whose ranks he began to rise during his nine years as a London clerk (1905-14).
www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/B00004CX8H   (956 words)

  
 Michael Collins
MICHAEL COLLINS is Neil Jordan's epic portrayal of the controversial life and death of Michael Collins, one of the 20th century's most significant yet overlooked political figures.
Liam Neeson stars as Michael Collins in a story about the real-life patriot whose bravery and unswerving dedication to the Irish people changed history as it made him into a legend.
Collins' efforts to create a free and peaceful country, like the epic history of Ireland itself, would encompass romance and violence, valor and rage, burning hope and fiery tragedy.
www.findthefun.com /movies/m00/m0001804.htm   (266 words)

  
 Filmtracks: Michael Collins (Elliot Goldenthal)
Michael Collins: (Elliot Goldenthal) Proving that the young composer was here to stay, Michael Collins garnered Elliot Goldenthal with his second Academy Award nomination.
Michael Collins, along with Interview with a Vampire and Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within, is among these few strong entries in the composer's career.
In Michael Collins, practically none of that previous style is evident, as Goldenthal composed what would be a precursor of a sorts for Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within.
www.filmtracks.com /titles/michael_collins.html   (781 words)

  
 Metroactive Movies | Michael Collins
Irish director and screenwriter Neil Jordan's Michael Collins tells the story of the Irish struggle for independence from 1916 to 1922 by lauding the revolutionary hero about whom (perhaps too sympathetically) historian Carlton Younger wrote, "It is on the loom of Collins's memory...
Collins was called "one of the most courageous leaders ever produced by a valiant race" by British Prime Minister Lloyd George, who once offered £10,000 of his government's money for Collins' head.
Michael Collins is a bit instructive to those who know nothing about the current situation.
www.metroactive.com /papers/metro/10.24.96/mike-collins-9643.html   (1745 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: Books: In Great Haste: The Letters of Michael Collins and Kitty Kiernan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Collins (1890-1922) is remembered as the man who outfoxed the British in the Irish War of Independence, led the hard-nosed negotiations that resulted in the eventual establishment of the Irish Republic and became head of state at the age of 31.
Collins and Kiernan both referred to their pages as "quick notes" and such, yet the pages contained few cross outs and changes which indicated that that both writers gave their "quick notes" quite a bit of thought.
The Michael Collins we see in these letters is a man of deep feelings, not primarily for Kitty Kiernan (although that too), but for his country and his fellow Irish.
www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0717123987   (862 words)

  
 Official HomePage of Bestselling Author Michael Collins   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Born in Limerick, Ireland in 1964, Collins is a distant relation of the Irish Nationalist, Michael Collins, and prides himself on the political and social legacy his ancestor fought and died for on behalf of Ireland.
Collins holds an MA in Creative Writing from The University of Notre Dame, (1991) and a doctorate in Creative Writing from The University of Illinois (1997).
Collins is a dedicated teacher, and given his background in teaching, coupled with his unique and circuitous route to publishing success, he offers creative writing seminars for aspiring writers, focusing on specific life and writing strategies that he has developed over the years which allowed him to write while maintaining a full-time job.
home.comcast.net /~michaelcollins3/MichaelCollins_Official_Home_Page.htm   (491 words)

  
 Michael Collins Selmer-Style Gypsy Guitars   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Michael Collins is one of the few luthiers in North America to build reproductions of the Selmer and Maccaferri style guitar.
Michael builds the guitars in the traditional style as they were built in the Selmer factory in Paris in the 1930s and 40s, which yields a traditional voice and timbre.
Michael has a Gypsy Travel Guitar (we know, it's oxymoronic!) for sale and has consigned to sell a 1993 Maurice Dupont MD-20.
www.collinsguitar.com   (283 words)

  
 Welcome to Sara's Michael Collins Site
Michael Collins can easily be regarded as one of history's most intriguing and mysterious figures.
Though Collins is seen as hero to some and rogue to others, his name is still in the hearts and minds of those with a love of Irish history.
As Tim Pat Coogan has observed, Michael Collins was indeed the man who made modern Ireland possible.
www.geocities.com /heathcliffiam/mcintro.htm   (164 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Video: Michael Collins (1996)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Michael Collins has nagging flaws, but in the sweep of the passionate filmmaking and performances, all else is moot.
Collins is generally safe from the authorities due to a host of reasons, the least of which include his support from the people and the fact that the cops have no clue what he looks like.
How the British didn't know Michael Collins on sight considering he spent time in jail is something I can't explain, but nonetheless his terror missions serve their purpose.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/6304385668?v=glance   (2467 words)

  
 BBC - History - Wars - 1916 Easter Rising - Profiles - Michael Collins   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Michael Collins is widely regarded as the most charismatic political leader in the history of twentieth century Ireland.
The delay gave his government time to prepare its forces and improved its moral position, as it was evident that the conflict had been forced upon it.
Collins was shot dead at Béal na mBláth County Cork on 22nd August 1922, whilst on an inspection tour of Munster and searching for a basis for peace.
www.bbc.co.uk /history/war/easterrising/profiles/po03.shtml   (557 words)

  
 Astronaut Bio: Michael Collins (Major General, USAF, Retired)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Collins has received numerous decorations and awards, including the Presidential Medal for Freedom in 1969, the Robert J. Collier Trophy, the Robert H. Goddard Memorial Trophy, and the Harmon International Trophy.
Collins was one of the third group of astronauts named by NASA in October 1963.
Collins has completed two space flights, logging 266 hours in space, of which 1 hour and 27 minutes were spent in EVA.
vesuvius.jsc.nasa.gov /er/seh/collinsm.htm   (424 words)

  
 Title: "Michael Collins" - Topics: World/Ireland
Michael Collins, more than any other man, was responsible for Irish Home Rule granted by Britain in 1922.
One of the inventors of urban guerilla warfare, Collins became a peacemaker when he came to believe that home rule was all that was then attainable from England.
"Michael Collins" shows a man’s use of violence to obtain freedom for his country and his rejection of violence when a substantial portion of his goals, but not complete victory, can be obtained by negotiation.
www.teachwithmovies.org /guides/michael-collins.html   (448 words)

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