Today in History for July 16: In 622, Prophet Mohammad fled from Mecca, where he was despised and persecuted, to the northern city of Medina, marking the day of beginning of Hegira, the Islamic ...

The Irish War of Independence was both a political struggle and a military conflict. Militarily, the two sides appeared unfairly matched. By 1921, the British forces fielded roughly 55,000 troops ...

Michael Collins, Commander in Chief of the Irish Free State, is shot in an ambush on this day in 1922. Get This Happened straight to your inbox ️ each day! Sign up here.

1 of 4 | On Aug. 22, 1922, Michael Collins, a founder of the Irish Republican Army and a key figure in Ireland's independence movement, was assassinated by political opponents.

The Irish revolutionary Michael Collins has been pictured in a back room of the General Post Office (GPO) in Dublin, shaking his head in disgust over the chaotic miscarriage of the 1916 republican ...

Michael Collins was an Irish revolutionary leader and politician who played a pivotal role in Ireland's struggle for independence from British rule in the early 20th century. He was born in 1890 ...

July 13, 2023 at 6:34pm BST A plaque marking the location where Michael Collins was sworn into the Irish Republican Brotherhood is being unveiled in London. The memorial plaque at Barnsbury Hall ...

On Aug. 22, 1922, Michael Collins, a founder of the Irish Republican Army and a key figure in Ireland's independence movement, was assassinated.

Collins, who was by that stage an elected MP, became both a minister in the provisional government and the director of intelligence for the Irish Republican Army (IRA).