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Michael Collins (1890 - 1922)

Michael Collins ©A soldier and politician who was prominent in the struggle for Irish independence in the early 20th century. He agreed to the partition of Ireland and the creation of the Irish Free State, becoming leader of its provisional government.

Michael Collins was born on 16 October 1890 near Clonakilty in County Cork, the son of a farmer. After leaving school he worked for the Post Office, spending nine years in London where he became involved in radical Irish nationalist politics.

By 1908 he was a member of Sinn Féin, and a year later he joined the clandestine Irish Republican Brotherhood (IRB). He then returned to Dublin in January 1916 and took part in the Easter Rising, but after its failure he was imprisoned, although he was later released in December of that year.

In 1918, the British government attempted to introduce conscription in Ireland and Collins went on the run to avoid the call-up. He became the IRB's organiser-in-chief and assembled a network of spies within government institutions.

In the 1918 December general

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Michael Collins (Irish leader)

Irish revolutionary and politician (1890–1922)

Michael Collins (Irish: Mícheál Ó Coileáin;^[1] 16 October 1890 – 22 August 1922) was an Irish revolutionary, soldier and politician who was a leading figure in the early-20th century struggle for Irish independence.^[2] During the War of Independence he was Director of Intelligence of the Irish Republican Army (IRA) and a government minister of the self-declared Irish Republic. He was then Chairman of the Provisional Government of the Irish Free State from January 1922 and commander-in-chief of the National Army from July until his death in an ambush in August 1922, during the Civil War.

Collins was born in Woodfield, County Cork, the youngest of eight children. He moved to London in 1906 to become a clerk in the Post Office Savings Bank at Blythe House. He was a member of the London GAA, through which he became associated with the Irish Republican Brotherhood and the Gaelic League. He returned to Ireland in January 1916 and fought in the Easter Rising. He was taken prisoner

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Michael Collins

In the 1918 general election Collins won his seat in South Cork. Succeeding the general election, Collins was appointed minister of Home Affairs and later Minister of Finance. In this role he organised the hugely successful Dáil loan which financed the republican government.

Collins is best known for his leadership of the Irish Republican Army (IRA) and role as Director of Intelligence throughout the campaign against Britain during the Irish War of Independence.

Collins also directed a group known as ‘the squad’ who were tasked with assassinating high profile British targets. This campaign culminated on 21 November 1920 with an event known as Bloody Sunday.

When a truce was agreed with Britain in July 1921, Collins and Eamon de Valera were the two most powerful men in republican Ireland. After de Valera had led initial talks in London, Collins led the Irish delegation which resulted in the Anglo-Irish Treaty of December 1921.

The treaty brought the Irish Free State into existence and consolidated the partition of the island, with six predom