The Day Michael Collins was Shot - 80 year anniversary. Was the Irish Hero shot by his own people in his native Cork ?

Eighty years ago on August 22nd 1922 one of the most famous leaders in Irish history was shot dead in Béal na mBláth, Co. Cork. The shooting reverberated through Irish society much like the shooting of JFK. www.poolbeg.com

Eighty years ago on August 22nd 1922 one of the most famous leaders in Irish history was shot dead in Béal na mBláth, Co. Cork. The shooting reverberated through Irish society much like the shooting of JFK.

The name Michael Collins can still to this day split entire families in Ireland - bringing to the foreground the bitter enimity that existed in civil war Ireland. Treaty or anti-treaty, republican or nationalist ..... mere words separated brothers caused inner divisions within many Irish families.

For many people it was a case of you sympathised with the future President of Ireland, Eamon DeValera or Michael Collins. However many houses had pictures of both, testament to the esteem in which each was held in Ireland through her troubled history.

Already the subject of a fine film - "Michael Collins", starring Liam Neeson and also an
important book, an exciting and suspensful narrative and an invaluable work of primary
historical research - "The Day Michael Collins Was Shot" - which solves the mystery surrounding the ambush and killing of Michael Collins.

This book explains the background to the IRA, British occupation and the people involved in
this most painful part of Irish history but which still retains an air of heroism despite the atrocities of the provisional IRA in the last 3 decades.

The author Meda Ryan drawing on eye-witness accounts never before published, 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.
See the book on www.poolbeg.com