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MORE ON THE 80TH ANNIVERSARY OF MICHAEL COLLINS' DEATH
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Books, DVDs on Michael Collins, Freedom Struggle
Books
 Michael Collins: The Man Who Made Ireland by Tim Pat Coogan.
When the Irish nationalist Michael Collins signed the Anglo-Irish Treaty in December 1921, he told Lord Birkenhead that he may have signed his own death warrant. In August 1922 that prophecy came true when Collins was ambushed, shot and killed by a compatriot. But his vision and legacy lived on. In a new edition of his bestselling biography, Tim Pat Coogan brings the story up to date. Here is the life of a man whose idealistic vigour and determination were matched by his political realism and organizational abilities. Collins was a forceful presence that forged the Irish nation and Coogan vividly illustrates the turbulence as well as the joy of his life. |
 Ulick O'Connor includes valuable new information about the secret war against England and provides a fresh and highly dramatic account of Ireland's fight for freedom. Using important material from the archives of General Richard Mulcahy, Collins's chief of staff, as well as personal interviews with Mulcahy, Eamon de Valera, and others, Michael Collins and the Troubles is a vivid and often horrifying account of a crucial time, the consequences of which are still felt today. Read more about Michael Collins, and how he beat the British at their own game in Michael Collins and the Troubles |
 The classic literary biography of one of Ireland's greatest and most charismatic leaders. In 1916, Michael Collins returned to his native Ireland, after ten years in voluntary exile in London, to join Irish laborers, clerks, teachers, and poets in one of the most impassioned and complicated revolutions in history. Nicknamed "The Big Fellow", Collins began to take a key role in the uprisings. Frank O'Connor, one of the world's most acclaimed writers, who himself fought in the Irish Civil War, traces Collins's life his return to Dublin to the day he was shot dead on a country road in The Big Fellow: Michael Collins and the Irish Revolution
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 Big Fellow, Long Fellow: A Joint Biography of Collins and de Valera by T Ryle Dwyer. Michael Collins and Eamon de Valera: the two most charismatic leaders of the Irish revolution. Dwyer looks first at their very different upbringings and early careers. Both fought in 1916, but their first encounter didn't come until Collins had been released from jail and de Valera was still inside. Vastly different in temperament and style, but yoked together. Ryle Dwyer mines the years 1917-1922 through the twists and turns of their careers. In the epilogue, he considers the legacy of Collins on de Valera's later political life. |
 The path to freedom
by Michael Collins. Published to coincide with the film biography starring Liam Neeson, Julia Roberts, and Stephen Rea, The Path to Freedom contains the only published work of the Irish hero who was, for a time, the most wanted man in the British Empire: "the man they couldn't catch". In 1921, the thirty-year-old Collins negotiated with the British and signed the Anglo-Irish Treaty, eventually leading to the creation of the Republic of Ireland. With introductory essay by Tim Pat Coogan, a prominent Irish journalist and author of the definitive biography on Collins. |
 Michael Collins : the man who won the war by T Ryle Dwyer. The story of a charismatic rebel who undermined British morale and inspired Irish people to seek independence from British rule. Michael Collins coordinated the sweeping Sinn Fein election victory of 1918 and put structure to the organization of the IRA. He was the prototype of the urban terrorist and the real architect of the war against the British. |
 The Irish Civil War: An Illustrated History.
The Irish Civil War inspired passion, hatred and idealism long after the Free State took control in 1923. Helen Litton recounts the events leading up to the signing of the Treaty and the outbreak of hostilities. Here are the personalities -- the pragmatism of Arthur Griffith, the charisma of Michael Collins, the resounding rhetoric of de Valera, the military tactics of Liam Lynch. Using newspaper reports, speeches, eyewitness accounts, and illustrative material, Helen Litton describes the mixture of confusion, inexperience and sometimes misguided vision that partly characterized both the Provisional Government and those commanding the Irregulars. |
 Michael Collins: In his own words.
Using Collins actual words, Francis Costello traces Michael Collins life from his school days to his death in a Republican ambush during the Irish Civil War at just 31. He used sources such as the National Library of Ireland, the Military History Bureau of the Department of Defense, newspapers and reports from the Dail, numerous books, and the papers of others who knew Collins. Extracting portions of Collin's speeches, letters, memos from these sources, Costello then edited them in a book which allows Collins to speak for himself. |
Film
 "This story is more about history than any political statement. Collins wasn't a proponent of terrorism. He developed techniques of guerilla warfare later copied by independence movements around the world, from Mao Tse-Tung in China to Yitzhak Shamir in Israel. He fought the British Empire in Ireland with the only army available to him -- the Irish Volunteers, bands of poorly armed peasants and working-class youths. Collins would never be a proponent of contemporary terrorism as practiced today. He was a soldier and a statesman and, over time, a man of peace." Neal Jordan, director of Michael Collins. Also in DVD |
 The Informer. Four years before he revived and elevated the Western in Stagecoach,
director John Ford guided this atmospheric melodrama to multiple Academy
Awards, proving that his underlying skills as a storyteller, visual
designer, and dramatic guide didn't need epic scale, sweeping action, or
favorite star John Wayne to achieve dramatic impact. Based on Liam
O'Flaherty's novel set during the Sinn Fein rebellion in 1922, Dudley
Nichols's script offers an intimate portrait of Gypo Nolan, a violent,
alcoholic Dubliner who betrays a friend (Wallace Ford) for cash, setting in
motion a downward spiral of fear, anger, and drunken oblivion.
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 Ryan's Daughter.
David Lean's epic tale of forbidden love, set during the Irish Rebellion of 1916. Charles Shaughnessy,
a kind and gentle widower, falls in love with and marries the much younger Rosy. On her wedding night, however, Rosy finds that her new husband does not make her romantic dreams come true.
When a handsome young Major arrives to take over England's occupying
forces, he and Rosy feel an immediate sexual attraction to each other.
Unable to resist temptation despite the dangers, the two begin a
passionate affair. But when someone betrays the Irish rebels to the
British authorities, the whole town suspects Rosy. They're determined
to make her pay.
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