Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 113. Chapters: Deaths by firearm in Northern Ireland,
Deaths by firearm in the Republic of Ireland, Executed participants in the
Easter Rising, Michael Collins, Billy Wright, Seamus Costello, James Connolly,
Patrick Pearse, John Carthy, Tom Clarke, Norman Stronge, Robert Nairac, Robert
McConnell, Gilbert Potter, Billy Hanna, Edgar Graham, Antoine Mac Giolla
Bhrighde, William Marchant, Death of John Ward, Joe McCann, Murder of Shane
Geoghegan, Séamus McElwaine, John Francis Green, Kevin O´Higgins, Joseph
MacManus, Martin Doherty, Frankie Curry, Billy McMillen, Veronica Guerin, Pat
Finucane, Lenny Murphy, Joseph Fenton, William Fleming, Pearse Jordan, Denis
Donaldson, Martin O´Hagan, Seán Heuston, Peter Cleary, Robert Bradford, Jerry
McCabe, Martin McCaughey, George Seawright, Hugh Montgomery, Joseph Mary
Plunkett, Aidan McAnespie, Joe Bratty, Milltown Cemetery attack, Dessie Grew,
James Stronge, Tomás Mac Curtain, John Bingham, John MacBride, Dennis O´Brien,
Arthur Vicars, Éamonn Ceannt, Billy Fox, Pádraig McKearney, Jim Lynagh, Conn
Colbert, Seán Mac Diarmada, Seán South, Deaths of Garda officers, Charles
Breslin, John McKeague, Fergal O´Hanlon, William Stobie, Patrick Joseph Kelly,
Rory O´Connor, Billy Reid, Kevin Coen, Frank Shawe-Taylor, Tommy Herron,
Herbert Westmacott, Thomas Bernard Hackett, Gerald Donaghy, Fergal Caraher,
Miriam Daly, Michael O´Hanrahan, Michael Mallin, Ronnie Bunting, Robert Bates,
Edward Daly, Ray Smallwoods, Willie Pearse, Francis Browning, John Turnley,
Hugh Torney, Sean Hales, Jim Gray, Michael McVerry, Al Slater, John Gregg, John
Henry Blake, Frank Brooke, Bernadette Friel, Sean McIlvenna, Thomas ´Ta´ Power,
Dinny Lacey, Joe Howley, Michael Griffin, Eddie Fullerton, Gerard Steenson,
John Barnhill, Richard Fitzgerald, Liam Rice, Gino Gallagher, Richard Fallon,
Gerard Casey, Seamus Grew, Jimmy Brown, Sammy Ward. Excerpt: Michael Mick
Collins (Irish: 16 October 1890 - 22 August 1922) was an Irish revolutionary
leader, Minister for Finance and Teachta Dála (TD) for Cork South in the First
Dáil of 1919, Director of Intelligence for the IRA, and member of the Irish
delegation during the Anglo-Irish Treaty negotiations. Subsequently, he was
both Chairman of the Provisional Government and Commander-in-chief of the
National Army. Throughout this time, at least as of 1919, he was also President
of the Irish Republican Brotherhood, and, therefore, under the bylaws of the
Brotherhood, President of the Irish Republic. Collins was shot and killed in
August 1922, during the Irish Civil War. Although most Irish political parties
recognise his contribution to the foundation of the modern Irish state,
supporters of Fine Gael hold his memory in particular esteem, regarding him as
their movement´s founding father, through his link to their precursor Cumann na
nGaedheal. Born in Sam´s Cross, West Cork, Collins was the third son and
youngest of eight children. Most biographies state his date of birth as 16
October 1890; however, his tombstone gives his date of birth as 12 October
1890. His father, also named Michael, had become a member of the republican
Fenian movement, but had left and settled down to farming. The elder Collins
was 60 years old when he married Marianne O´Brien, then 23, in 1875. The
marriage was apparently happy and they raised eight children on their 90 acre
(36 ha) farm in Woodfield. Michael was the youngest child; he was only six
years old when his father died. On his death bed h…
