Ireland with Michael

File:Michael_Collins.jpgMichael Collins aged 10–11 at newly built Woodfield HouseCollins in Irish Volunteer uniformCaptured Irish soldiers in Stafford Gaol after the failed Easter Rising. Collins is fifth from the right with an 'x' over his head.Michael Collins and Arthur GriffithMembers of the First Dáil  First row, left to right: Laurence Ginnell, Michael Collins, Cathal Brugha, Arthur Griffith, Éamon de Valera, Count Plunkett, Eoin MacNeill, W. T. Cosgrave, Kevin O'Higgins (third row, right)Harry Boland (left), Michael Collins (middle), and Éamon de Valera (right)Collins inspects a soldierCollins in London as delegate to the Anglo-Irish Treaty negotiationsA map of Ireland showing the border between Northern Ireland and the Irish Free StateMichael Collins addresses a crowd in Skibbereen on Saint Patrick's Day, 1922.The Provisional Government, led by Collins, gave the order to bombard the Four Courts with artillery shells in an attempt to remove the anti-Treaty IRA. This was the start of the Irish Civil War.Michael Collins as Commander-in-Chief of the Irish National ForcesCollins and Richard Mulcahy at Arthur Griffith's funeral, a few days before Collins's deathFile:Michael_Collins_body_lying_in_hospital.jpg

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