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The Day Michael Collins was Shot

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ISBN: 9781781997260
AuthorRyan, Meda
Pub Date14/08/2022
BindingPaperback
CountryIRL
Dewey941.508
Publisher: Poolbeg Press Ltd
Quick overview 'The Day Michael Collins Was Shot' NEW edition and fully Revised. Highly acclaimed and regarded as one of the best reference books on Collins.
€14.99

Michael Collins was shot dead in an ambush at Béal na mBláth, Co Cork, on 22 August 1922. The manner of his death and the identity of his killer have been the source of intense speculation and controversy ever since.

In this book Meda Ryan solves the mystery. Drawing on eye-witness testimony never before published, she painstakingly reconstructs, in minute-by-minute detail, the last four days of Michael Collins’s life and follows, mile-by-mile, his fatal journey through his home county of Cork.

The Day Michael Collins Was Shot is both an exciting and suspenseful narrative and an invaluable work of primary historical research.

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Michael Collins was shot dead in an ambush at Béal na mBláth, Co Cork, on 22 August 1922. The manner of his death and the identity of his killer have been the source of intense speculation and controversy ever since.

In this book Meda Ryan solves the mystery. Drawing on eye-witness testimony never before published, she painstakingly reconstructs, in minute-by-minute detail, the last four days of Michael Collins’s life and follows, mile-by-mile, his fatal journey through his home county of Cork.

The Day Michael Collins Was Shot is both an exciting and suspenseful narrative and an invaluable work of primary historical research.

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