This film was shot at Portobello Barracks in Dublin in 1922 during the Irish Civil War. Shortly afterward Collins would be dead, gunned down at Beal Na Blath in his native Cork in a Republican ...

For decades it was believed that the civil war started right after Michael Collins ordered the murder of Field Marshal Sir Henry Wilson, a leading unionist and foe of Collins and the Irish revolution.

Of all the Irish signatures on the Treaty, Michael Collins was the one His Majesty's Government had prized the most. ... The Irish Civil War Fatalities Project. 14/2/1981. Stardust.

Minister for Health Jennifer Carroll MacNeill will deliver the oration at Béal na Bláth later this summer to mark the 103rd ...

AUGUST 22, 1922: Irish independence leader Michael Collins was killed in ambush during his country’s Civil War on this day in 1922. The chairman of the provisional government was shot dead by ...

Neil Jordan’s “Michael Collins” has earned its place as a classic account of the Irish civil war, while “The San Patricios” is a cult classic that deserves a bigger audience.

Michael Collins: Irish revolutionary’s murder re-examined 100 years on. ... two parties who trace their origins to the civil war, travelled to Cork on Sunday to pay their respects.

Michael Collins was killed on August 22, 1922 near Béal na Bláth, Co Cork, during the civil war. Photograph: Hulton Archive/Getty Images ...

After the signing of the Treaty, Michael Collins's approach was a combination ... State negotiated with the British and the new Northern Irish prime minister James Craig. But an assassination ...