It got a bit hairy betimes.
From Tim Pat Coogan’s The Man Who Made Ireland:
Fascinating insight.
Or hoary old chestnut roasting on an open fire.
YOU decide.
The Man Who Made Ireland by Tim Pat Coogan (Amazon)
Pic via GeneralMichaelCollins
Thanks Sibling Of Daedalus
Michael Collins was a pisshead ? No wonder he’s revered as a great Irish patriot.
Why is this not a ‘where was this photo taken’ comp? It just looks stunning.
Merrion Street, maybe.
Where was the pic taken? Anyone?
In London during the treaty negotiations.
It looks more like Dublin than London to me
And just a couple of years later Collins would be dead, and four months after that, his buddies would take Rory O’Connor out of where he’d been languishing in jail and murder him. Happy days.
….because he ignored the will of the Irish people that accepted the provisions of the Free State Treaty (75% to be exact) and engaged in an act of treason by occupying the Four Courts.
Happy Christmas.
The usual bullshit from Tim Pat Coogan, one of Ireland’s greatest spoofers
Is that you Dev, ya long hoor!