Discover the soldier and peacemaker that was Michael Collins! Michael
Collins was born in County Cork and was the youngest of eight children.
He moved to London as a teenager but returned to Ireland to fight in the
Easter Rising of 1916. By 1919 he was Minister for Finance in the First
Dáil.
After the Irish War of Independence, Michael went back to London to
negotiate peace. The resulting Anglo-Irish Treaty established the Irish
Free State but depended on an oath of allegiance to the Crown. And so
the Irish Civil War began ...
Michael Collins is the sixth book in Gill's Little Library series. Other
books in the series are Granuaile, Brian Boru, Mary Robinson, Tom Crean,
Constance Markievicz. When your collection is complete you'll have a
Little Library - and big knowledge!