TY  - BOOK
AU  - Connolly, Colm
TI  - Michael Collins 
SN  - 0297836080
U1  - 920 CON 
KW  - Biography
KW  - Irish History
N1  - 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
ER  -