Michael Collins

Michael Collins

Author: Anne Dolan

Publisher: Gill & Macmillan Ltd

Published: 2018-10-05

Total Pages: 587

ISBN-13: 178841053X

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'It was the most providential escape yet. It will probably have the effect of making them think that I am even more mysterious than they believe me to be, and that is saying a good deal.' Michael Collins knew the power of his persona, and capitalised on what people wanted to believe. The image we have of him comes filtered through a sensational lens, exaggerated out of all proportion. We see what we have come to expect: 'the man who won the war', the centre of a web of intelligence that 'brought the British Empire to its knees'. He comes to us as a mixture of truth and lies, propaganda and misunderstanding. The willingness to see him as the sum of the Irish revolution, and in turn reduce him to a caricature of his many parts, clouds our view of both the man and the revolution. Drawing on archives in Ireland, Britain and the United States, the authors question our traditional assumptions about Collins. Was he the man of his age, or was he just luckier, more brazen, more written about and more photographed than the rest? Despite the pictures of him in uniform during the last weeks of his life, Collins saw very little of the actual fight. He was chiefly an organiser and a strategist. Should we remember him as a master of the mundane rather than the romantic figure of the blockbuster film? The eight thematic, highly illustrated chapters scrutinise different aspects of Collins' life: origins, work, war, politics, celebrity, beliefs, death and afterlives. Approaching him through the eyes of contemporaries and historians, friends and enemies, this provocative book reveals new insights, challenging what we think we know about him and, in turn, what we think we know about the Irish revolution.


I Love You, Michael Collins

I Love You, Michael Collins

Author: Lauren Baratz-Logsted

Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux (BYR)

Published: 2017-06-20

Total Pages: 241

ISBN-13: 0374303851

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A funny and heartwarming middle grade novel about a girl who writes letters to her favorite astronaut as America prepares for the moon landing.


Michael Collins: The Man Who Made Ireland

Michael Collins: The Man Who Made Ireland

Author: Tim Pat Coogan

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Published: 2002-05-17

Total Pages: 542

ISBN-13: 9780312295110

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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.


Mission to Mars

Mission to Mars

Author: Michael Collins

Publisher: Grove Press

Published: 1990

Total Pages: 307

ISBN-13: 9780802111609

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The author, a former astronaut, argues that NASA should focus on a manned mission to Mars, with the long-range objective of establishing a permanent colony, and describes the physical, technical, and psychological demands of such a mission


Carrying the Fire

Carrying the Fire

Author: Michael Collins

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2001-04-03

Total Pages: 544

ISBN-13: 081541028X

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NASA astronaut Michael Collins was the first man to walk in space and also piloted the first manned craft to land on the moon.


The Great Cover-Up

The Great Cover-Up

Author: Gerard Murphy

Publisher: Gill & Macmillan Ltd

Published: 2018-06-08

Total Pages: 290

ISBN-13: 1788410424

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Why were both sides of the Civil War divide so evasive when it came to the death of Michael Collins? Why were they still trying to effect cover-ups as late as the 1960s? Determined to find the truth despite the trails of deception left by many of the key players, Gerard Murphy, a scientist, looked in detail at the evidence. Previous researchers have tended to concentrate on the reminiscences of survivors. Murphy instead focuses on information that appeared in the immediate wake of the ambush, before attempts could be made to conceal the truth. He also examines newly released material, and has carried out a forensic analysis of the ambush site based on photographic evidence of the aftermath recently discovered in a Dublin attic. These investigations have unearthed significant new evidence, overlooked for almost a century, that seriously questions the version of events currently accepted by historians.


Mick

Mick

Author: Peter Hart

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2007-01-30

Total Pages: 529

ISBN-13: 0143038540

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Few leaders in history have been as mythologized as Michael Collins. Before his death at 31, he had fought in the Easter Rising, organized the IRA and out-spied British intelligence, negotiated the Anglo-Irish Treaty, and run the first independent government in Ireland. Peter Hart’s groundbreaking biography restores humanity to this mythical figure. Drawing on previously unknown sources, delving into Collins’s pre-revolutionary past, and assessing the methods—and the costs—of his rise to power, Mick reveals a man of often ruthless ambition, more politician than soldier, whose friendships went no farther than his interests. A work as thrilling as it is authoritative.


The Likes Of Us

The Likes Of Us

Author: Michael Collins

Publisher: Granta Books

Published: 2014-11-06

Total Pages: 241

ISBN-13: 178378170X

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Once they were portrayed as the salt of the earth. Nowadays, they take to the streets when paedophiles and asylum seekers are in their midst; they expose their lives in TV documentaries; they love Gucci and hate the Euro; the broadsheets cast them as xenophobes and exhibitionists and mock their tastes and attitudes. But who are the white working class and what have they done to deserve this portrayal? The Likes of Us is a fascinating and wholly original examination of London's white working class.