Michael Collins: The Man Who Made Ireland - Softcover

Coogan, Tim Pat

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0312295111 ISBN 13: 9780312295110

Publisher: St. Martins Press-3PL, 2002

Synopsis

When the Irish nationalist Michael Collins signed the Anglo-Irish Treaty in December 1921, he observed to Lord Birkenhead that he may have signed his own death warrant. In August 1922 that prophecy came true when Collins was ambushed, shot and killed by a compatriot, but his vision and legacy lived on. Tim Pat Coogan's biography presents the life of a man whose idealistic vigor and determination were matched by his political realism and organizational abilities. This is the classic biography of the man who created modern Ireland.

About this title

Review:

"A timely and courageous book." --John McGahern, Sunday Times

"There have been several other lives of Collins, but none has assembled such wealth of detail." --Independent on Sunday

"The events described in this book can usefully be learned from by those who govern Ireland now." --Financial Times

"A lively and colourful adventure story with a fascinating, yet recognisably human, hero." --Dublin Sunday Press

Book Description:

A fascinating and thorough biography of Ireland's gretaest revolutionary leader, a man credited with founding a modern, independent Republic of Ireland.

About this edition

• Publisher: St. Martins Press-3PL
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0312295111
• ISBN 13: 9780312295110
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 534