Michael Collins
Connolly, Colm
Michael Collins - 94p hb
Colm Connolly charts the extraordinary career of Michael Collins, starting with his childhood in West Cork where he was instilled with a patriotic fervour by a local blacksmith through to his death at the age of 31 in a lonely valley known as The Mouth of Flowers. In that short life his impact on the course of Irish history was profound. He was a powerful, vigorous man whose charm, intelligence and physical attractiveness - allied to ruthlessness and oratorical gifts - propelled him to the forefront of the Irish fight for independence from Britain and the subsequent treaty negotiations.
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Biography
Irish History
920 CON
Michael Collins - 94p hb
Colm Connolly charts the extraordinary career of Michael Collins, starting with his childhood in West Cork where he was instilled with a patriotic fervour by a local blacksmith through to his death at the age of 31 in a lonely valley known as The Mouth of Flowers. In that short life his impact on the course of Irish history was profound. He was a powerful, vigorous man whose charm, intelligence and physical attractiveness - allied to ruthlessness and oratorical gifts - propelled him to the forefront of the Irish fight for independence from Britain and the subsequent treaty negotiations.
0297836080 0.00 0297836080 9780297836087
Biography
Irish History
920 CON