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	Michael Collins (Irish leader)
		Michael Collins was born in Sam's Cross, near Clonakilty in West Cork in 1890.
		Michael's father, also called Michael Collins, was a member of the radical fringe republican Fenian[?] movement when he was 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 local school headmaster, Denis Lyons, a member of the Irish Republican Brotherhood[?] (IRB).
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/mi/Michael_Collins_(Irish_patriot).html (2407 words)

	Michael Collins (Irish leader) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Michael John ("Mick") Collins was born in Sam's Cross, near Clonakilty, in County Cork, Ireland in 1890, the third son and youngest of eight children.
		Michael's older sister, Helena, became a nun, and was known as Sister Mary Celestine; she was a schoolteacher in London.
		Collins and Richard Mulcahy were two principal central organisers for the Irish Republican Army, in so far as it was possible to direct the actions of scattered and heavily localised guerrilla units.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Michael_Collins_(Irish_patriot) (4062 words)

	Michael Collins - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Collins was the command module pilot in lunar orbit during Apollo 11,...
		Michael John Collins (Irish: Mícheál Seán Ó Coileáin; 16 October, 1890 22 August, 1922) was an Irish revolutionary leader, served as Minister for Finance in the Irish Republic, as Director of...
		Michael Collins (born October 31, 1930) is a former American astronaut and test pilot.
	encarta.msn.com /Michael_Collins.html (201 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)

	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 (4336 words)

	Michael Collins - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Michael Collins (Irish leader), the Irish patriot and revolutionary of the 20th century
		Michael Collins (Limerick politician), a modern-day Irish politician
		Michael Collins (astronaut), the American astronaut, a member of the historic Apollo 11 crew.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Michael_Collins (183 words)

	General Collins, A brief History - Irish Nationalism
		Michael Collins was made president of the Supreme Council, Minister of Finance in the Dail, and commander of the Army of the Irish Republic (IRA).
		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.
	www.irish-nationalism.net /forum/showthread.php?t=52 (19045 words)

	History Channel Search Results
		(1890–1922), Irish patriot and soldier, born in Clonakilty.
		From 1906 to 1916 Collins worked as a clerk in London, where he joined the Irish Republican Brotherhood, a revolutionary group working for Irish independence from British rule.
		Collins represented Ireland in London and signed the peace treaty that brought the Irish Free State into existence.
	www.historychannel.com /encyclopedia/article.jsp?link=FWNE.fw..co176400.a (207 words)

	Michael Collins - MSN Encarta
		From 1906 to 1916 Collins worked as a clerk in London, where he joined the Irish Republican Brotherhood, a revolutionary group working for Irish independence from British rule.
		From 1919 to 1921 Collins organized the guerrilla warfare that succeeded in forcing Britain to sue for peace.
		Collins represented Ireland in London and signed the peace treaty that brought the Irish Free State into existence.
	encarta.msn.com /encnet/refpages/refarticle.aspx?refid=761554609 (203 words)

	A Irish tale of epic scale (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		It is the crucible of the experience of war for Michael Collins (Liam Neeson), an Irish patriot and one of the men battling the English fl and tans from within Dublin's post office building.
		It is the result of the bargain Collins struck with the British that drove the rest of Collins' life, which ended in an ambush short of his 32nd birthday.
		Jordan is particularly fond of showing Collins and his colleagues scrabbling down murky Dublin back alleys half a step ahead of British police, at the expense of being present at the truly important events.
	www.chron.com /content/chronicle/features/96/10/25/michaelcollins.html (668 words)

	Michael Collins - Introduction (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		Three, that Collins was ambushed and shot by a renegade band on his way to a meeting, which I believe to be true.
		Collins' Irish Volunteers did later take the name of the IRA, but then split into two factions in 1921 over the issue of whether to accept the partition treaty Collins had negotiated with the British.
		But allied to Collins' capacity for violence was the ability to see when it had to stop, when political means and negotiations would be the only way forward.
	michaelcollins.warnerbros.com /cmp/introduction.html (622 words)

	Caomhánach - Article - Sean Kavanagh - An Irish Patriot
		It was shortly after his arrival in Naas that he began his association with Michael Collins, the Minister for Finance in the Dail and Director of Organization in the Intelligence Service of the Irish Volunteers.
		Sean also was one of a hand picked group of Volunteers that Michael Collins and Cathal Brugha, the Minister of Defense, had at their disposal for special assignments.
		After working for Michael Collins for more than a year it was inevitable that Sean would come to the attention of the R.I.C. Near the end of 1920 they were able to identify him as Collins right hand man in Kildare and he was forced to go on the run.
	www.kavanaghfamily.com /articles/2004/20041215.htm (2024 words)

	Irish Independence (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		Emmet was an Irish patriot who had led "an unlikely and doomed rebellion in 1803 only to be hanged and beheaded at age 25." The fantasies forever influenced his political career.
		Michael Collins has proved to be one of the most well-known figures in the history of Ireland.
		When Collins was 17 years old, his mother died of cancer, and he moved to London to become a postal clerk.
	cal.jmu.edu /aleysb/irish.htm (2393 words)

	DVD: Michael Collins : Irish Gifts at Shanganagh.com
		Michael Collins occasionally loses focus and momentum, but is the kind of exciting historical drama that deserves to be called "sweeping." It is also one of the most beautifully photographed films in years: cinematographer Chris Menges uses color and texture to set moods and accent emotions.
		Collins' bravado, good humor, ingenious strategic savvy and ultimately his pragmatism in doing what needed to be done in his meetings with former enemies is all covered here, as is his treacherous murder at the hands of his own one-time comrades in the IRA.
		The '96 release of `Michael Collins' chronicles the life and death of the famous, or infamous depending on your perspective, of the Irish freedom fighter Michael Collins.
	www.shanganagh.com /2-421710-Dwyer_Michael.html (782 words)

	Green Left - Features: Michael Collins: Irish patriot or sell-out?
		Michael Collins (played in the film by Liam Neeson) was the founder of the modern Irish Republican Army (IRA), the chief tactician of the war against Britain and an international pioneer of guerilla warfare.
		Michael Collins, along with the rest of the moderate, bourgeois nationalist wing of the movement such as Arthur Griffith and the eventual Prime Minister William Cosgrave, supported the treaty with its limited aims and goals.
		Collins rationalised it by calling it a "stepping stone", even though there was no basis for forward motion once the treaty had been agreed to.
	www.greenleft.org.au /1997/259/17849 (1476 words)

	Michael Collins Memorabilia - dublin - life
		The National Museum of Ireland is delighted to unveil a collection of Michael Collins memorabilia in the main reception of the museum named after the famous Irish patriot, Collins Barracks.
		In 1948 Col. Patrick Collins, the General's nephew and Michael's grandfather, donated Michael Collin's uniform to the museum.
		Michael Collins was born in Cork in 1890 and work in London for a period in the post Office Savings Bank.
	www.dublinks.com /index.cfm/loc/18/pt/0/spid/4CE1802A-E34B-43EB-B23BEB965A406956.htm (249 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Northern Ireland \| Examining Irish leader's youthful past
		Collins, one of the most controversial figures in Irish history, fought in the 1916 Easter Rising against the British and on his release from prison, became the foremost nationalist guerrilla leader in the Irish War of Independence.
		His booklet also publishes other papers, in which Collins reveals himself to be a fan of the metric system with a loathing for the Imperial system of weights and measures.
		Collins, despite passing further civil service exams - with the caveat that he underwent dental treatment before being appointed - instead took a job in stock broking firm Horne and Company in Moorgate on moving to London in 1910, before his fateful return to Ireland in 1916.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/northern_ireland/3915341.stm (644 words)

	Park Villa Bed and Breakfast Kilkenny Accommodation B & B
		Collins, Michael (1890-1922), Irish patriot and soldier, born in Clonakilty.
		He participated in the Easter rebellion of 1916 in Dublin and was captured and was interned at Frongoch (Wales), where he emerged as the natural leader of the prisoners..
		After his release he became one of the chief workers for Irish freedom as a leader in the Sinn Féin movement.
	www.kilkennybedandbreakfast.com /collins.htm (277 words)

	Michael Collins, Irish Patriot. - Stormfront White Nationalist Community (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		Michael's father was a farmer by trade, not rich, but living comfortably for the times on a holding of ninety acres.
		Michael attended national school at Lisavaird, and the schoolmaster there was to have a large influence on Michael's life.
		Throughout Michael Collins' brief life, Irishness was the thing that held the greatest meaning for him.
	www.stormfront.org /forum/showthread.php?t=86813 (1458 words)

	Michael Collins - Lesson Plans from Movies and Film - Ireland, Irish Revolution
		Michael Collins, more than any other man, was responsible for Irish Home Rule granted by Britain in 1922.
		"Michael Collins" is a story of the personal growth of a leader from terrorism to an attempt to renounce violence.
		"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 (657 words)

	"COLLINS' TERRORIST AS HERO
		"MICHAEL COLLINS" is the epic story of the Irish rebellion leader who was killed by an Irish republican soldier,in 1922 at the age of 31, after having invented guerrilla warfare in the streets of Dublin.
		Collins is played by the hale and hearty Liam Neeson, who won best actor at the Venice Film Festival and is surely bring thought of for an Oscar.
		His Collins is shown to have been a patriot who was grievously compromised by his dedication to ending British rule in his homeland.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/e/a/1996/10/25/WEEKEND973.dtl (846 words)

	BBC NEWS \| N Ireland \| Neeson to unveil patriot statue
		Northern Ireland-born actor Liam Neeson is in Clonakilty to unveil a statue to Collins, who died in an ambush at the age of 32.
		Mr O'Donnabhain said it was an interesting historic fact that Michael Collins said in the treaty debates in the Irish parliament that in supporting it "we have achieved as much as we can at this time".
		The seven foot bronze statue depicts Michael Collins as he spoke at a 1922 general election rally in Clonakility.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/low/northern_ireland/2209403.stm (506 words)

	reverse shot - the new magazine of film culture
		And yet, in Michael Collins, that’s exactly what Neil Jordan does; and it’s the single most important factor in understanding why a project with such promise resulted in a film of such emptiness.
		The director and the star were Irish (Jordan from the South, Neeson from the North), and both were passionately committed to the story.
		Born in a stone cottage in the late 1800s, in the middle of one of the longest famines in European history, the young Michael Collins saw his countrymen starve and the British avert their eyes.
	reverseshot.com /legacy/winter06/jordan/michaelcollins1.html (992 words)

	Irish songs and traditional music, M - O
		Of fifty pounds of gelignite it sped him on his way and the lad that laid the charge, we're in debt to him today!
		Oh the Russians and the Yanks with their lunar probes they play and I hear the French are trying hard to make up lost headway But now the Irish join the race we have an astronaut in space!
		I wish you'd left it where it was, That's my old Fenian gun" I fondled it with love and pride.
	m.nu /eirinn/ceol/m (737 words)

	Michael Collins Whiskey On Its Way \| Liquor Snob
		Get ready for Michael Collins whiskey, an irish whiskey created by the Cooley Distillery, Ireland's last remaining independent distillery.
		Michael Collins Whiskey, a tribute to the life of the Irish patriot, and the announcement coincides with Collins' birthday, October 16, 1890.
		Einsidler said a percentage of sales would be paid to Collins’ descendents, to be given to a charity of their choice.
	www.liquorsnob.com /archives/2005/10/michael_collins_whiskey_on_its_way.php (320 words)

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