The legendary Irish revolutionary Michael Collins was known to be an avid reader during his brief career he set up a few underground newspapers. Collins also found time to write essays, which are collected in this work. In his essays, Collins distills his political thoughts and offers his unique insights into Ireland's troubled history.
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The legendary Irish revolutionary Michael Collins (the subject of the film starring Liam Neeson) was known to be an avid reader. And during his brief career he set up a few underground newspapers. Before his violent death at the age of 31, he also found time to write essays, which are collected here. There is a lively and informative introductory essay by Tim Pat Coogan, a prominent Irish journalist and author of the definitive biography on Collins, Michael Collins. In his essays, Collins distills his political thoughts and offers his unique insights into Ireland's troubled history.
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"This book shows us Michael Collins' ideas about the golden future he foresaw for Ireland." -- Irish American News "Irish American News"
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These essays or articles are engrossing reading for the insight they provide into the mind of one of the most fascinating revolutionary leaders in modern history. Thought of by many during his time and even now as a 'terrorist' or gunman, these writings reveal Collins to be a thoughtful, intelligent leader with a far-ranging interest in all aspects of the present and future of his country. Had he lived it seems very clear that the quality of his mind and the compassionate concern he had for his people would have made him as formidible a leader in peacetime as he was in war. His death was Ireland's great loss but he left an impressive legacy.
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Michael Collins own words provide a clear and insightful look at life in Ireland circa 1921, delving into the social conditions and circumstance that led to the infamous Black and Tan War. This book helped me see that enormous importance of the independence movement of the time, how Ireland was not even recognized as its own country, and what it meant to finally achieve that status. I could not picture a world without a free, seperate Ireland, its amazing to me that this was the case up until well into this century. Micheal Colins here is addressing the people directly, so you get a head-on view of the realities of the times without a lot of historical or sociological analysis. Thats good, because its better to encounter his words personally, to understand the case he is making in all its simplicity: The Irish people are, now and forever, Free!
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Tim Pat Coogan's account of the life of Michael Collins is full of information. The time and people come alive, and you are left knowing a lot more then you started with. This is the definitive biography of Mick.
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"Of all the words/ Of tongue or pen/ the saddest are these/
'It might have been'/". Such go the words of a poet that I cannot identify. But they adequately encapsulate
the emotions intended to be evoked
by this finely-edited collection of various writings by Michael Collins,
the Irish patriot, hero, and martyr (or traitor depending on one's perspective) who led his country's successful war of independence betwen 1919 and 1921.
Assassinated during the Irish Civil War of 1922-1923
because of his role in setting up an Irish government not sufficently
independent of Britain nor sufficiently encompassing the whole island to satisfy many of his former comrades
in the struggle, he never got to be tested as a peacetime leader. Path To Freedom allows
us to see the man through his own writings where he emerges as far more than a warrior.
Keenly interested in economics and culture, well-informed and articulate on
virtually every issue of state, foreign or domestic, Collins' legacy to the reader is to make him/her wonder what would the history of Ireland (North and South) be like -- even the history of Europe
itself in the time of a coming Depression and Age of Dictators -- had Collins survived. The renowned
modern Irish scholar-journalist Tim Pat Coogan provides a good introduction which
is mostly lifted verbatim from his earlier biography of Collins.
'It might have been'/". Such go the words of a poet that I cannot identify. But they adequately encapsulate
the emotions intended to be evoked
by this finely-edited collection of various writings by Michael Collins,
the Irish patriot, hero, and martyr (or traitor depending on one's perspective) who led his country's successful war of independence betwen 1919 and 1921.
Assassinated during the Irish Civil War of 1922-1923
because of his role in setting up an Irish government not sufficently
independent of Britain nor sufficiently encompassing the whole island to satisfy many of his former comrades
in the struggle, he never got to be tested as a peacetime leader. Path To Freedom allows
us to see the man through his own writings where he emerges as far more than a warrior.
Keenly interested in economics and culture, well-informed and articulate on
virtually every issue of state, foreign or domestic, Collins' legacy to the reader is to make him/her wonder what would the history of Ireland (North and South) be like -- even the history of Europe
itself in the time of a coming Depression and Age of Dictators -- had Collins survived. The renowned
modern Irish scholar-journalist Tim Pat Coogan provides a good introduction which
is mostly lifted verbatim from his earlier biography of Collins.
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