22 August 1922 - The Assassination of Michael Collins
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- One hundred years ago on this day, Ireland's national hero in the fight for independence was gunned down in an act of rebellion. This video takes a look at the life and legacy of Michael Collins.
Film Credit: Michael Collins (1996)
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even sadder to learn churchill told lloyd george that all Collins would talk about was the north- he was determined to get the counties in the north, and had his own fellow irish men not have shot him who knows what he could have achieved 😥
Thank you for your hard work on this video! I learned so much from it!
oh ! by the way very nice presentation, excellent dictation & voice tone !
request focus on easter 1916 & other historical events !
My compliments on you video, well done.
Well put together, thank you.
New to this channel glad it was recommended for me❤
Really glad you liked it!
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What is your accent
My grandfather was living in new Zealand at that time and my father was young my dad said there was great sadness at that time
Excellent video on this sad episode in our twisted history✅🇨🇮
The same war against oppression of our human rights is underway once again and we need to draw inspiration from these heroes of our history to win the current war🙏
Éire is in no War presently (2024).
One of the true Irish Patriots, God bless.
Very very well done-Eidhne
- Dan of Chicago
Very useful to a newbie to Ireland -but i always got the pain over his pointless killing
True point.He was gunned down trying to passify the cork IRA.He should have resigned instead of pressing the British agenda.
Far from pointless, the Irish civil war was nothing more than a knightly joust between various esoteric orders. He was blood sacrificed. Those who were taught the occult histories of Ireland know the truth. It has been hidden for 100 years.
A hero to some, but a traitor to others.
He was Chairman of the Provisional Government of the Irish Free State and Commander-in-Chief of the Irish National Forces, it was not pointless killing. He was a perfectly legitimate military target. It was a stupid decision though.
A brave man. RIP Michael 🇮🇪
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He was a traitor.
@@JamesRichards-mj9kw He was a statesman and a peace maker.
@@desmondhull5778 He used artillery from Churchill to bomb his own countrymen.
@@JamesRichards-mj9kw That's because the anti treaties wouldn't accept the will of the Irish people.The majority of TDS in the dail voted to accept the treaty that Michael Collins signed in London.Its called democracy.
Wish we had someone like him with us today.
I’m sure our great leaders would’ve stayed in bed if they seen Ireland 🇮🇪
Today.
Sad but true
they would've stuck against the treaty like actual Republicans if they saw the state of Ireland today.
the Irish Republic specifically mentioned the welfare of the working class over landlords. and the current Free State government still has the gall to claim our heroes as theirs.
@@desmondhull5778 Killed in action for betraying the Republic.
The ones who killed him were no less "cowards and scumbags" than Collins himself was during the War of Independence.
It was a sad end for Collins, but he himself knew the danger and acknowledged it.
@@vonbeedle554 Michael Collins done all the work and De Valera and the anti treaties took all the credit.I dont call hiding up on a hill on a lonely country road and ambushing your victims as a heroic act,I call it cowardice.Michael Collins was Irelands braveheart.
@@desmondhull5778 Ambushes was all the IRA did during the War of Independence. It was what Michael Collins excelled at. If you call it cowardly, you call Collins cowardly.
De Valera was not a Republican, as the majority of Anti-Treaty *soldiers* were.
The truth is, the Irish Republic was betrayed by the Anglo-Irish Treaty and the Free State. It was not the IRA that broke off and signed a treaty to collaborate with the enemy.
Dev sent him to agree to the treaty and cowardly Dev refused to sign it. Doing so signed Michael's death warrant..
You might want to re-write this.
De Valera was correct to oppose the Treaty.
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What's the red heads name?
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Fair play to yourself.
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He looks like Kenneth Branaugh.
Up With The Rebel`s !
Yes always
My Great Uncle John C. Kelly Castlerea, Roscommon started as spy as young spying on Black and Tans movements then he joined the Free State Irish Army and became his Irish Army Escort on the day he was killed in the Ambush. It was very sad day for and country of Ireland.
He was a Quisling.
He wasn’t assassinated or murdered but killed in action
It was like how Heydrich was killed.
@@JamesRichards-mj9kw wrong. Heydrich was intentionally targeted. IRA eyewitnesses knew they were firing at an officer but didn’t know it was Collins that fell. They also showed remorse in their safe-house later when word filtered in that it was Collins who died. Collins had an option to remain within cover of the armoured car and would have survived but his impatience led to him exposing himself on the road. Vast difference between an assassination and being killed in action
@@columorourke5426 Collins was killed deliberately.
@@columorourke5426They knew Mícheál Seán Ó Coileáin had to take the road back because they destroyed the bridges. It was a conscious attack.
Michael Collins was Ireland's Quisling.
As an English man from Irish ancestors Micheal Collins held a lot of respect in The Working class areas of the UK according to my old man who was also born in London if he had not been assassinated by De Valera he could have negotiated another treaty with the British and the Unionist as not long after, we in the UK had a Labour Government who were sympathetic to the Irish cause, as for De Valera for those years he was President of Ireland he was never successful in negotiating for a united Ireland,Perhaps he should have stayed in America the country of his birth MICHEAL COLLINS RIP
There wasn't a Labour government until 1945.
@@JamesRichards-mj9kwWell feelings aside, James McDonald Ramsay.
William Thomas Cosgrave could have and failed.
@@johnnotrealname8168 Ramsay MacDonald never led a Labour government.
@@johnnotrealname8168 There was not a Labour government until 1945.
But who killed him??
Several claimed they did it at least at first then realised they had probeblly signed their own demise i have my own theory but whatever
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I can see that this is in the Britannica. I disagree, the Irish at that time weren't radical. I take offense to your statement that they were radicals. They were oppressed and abused, the level of torture that CIVILIANS we're experiencing was wrong. So you can put this down in your Britannica.
There was no "oppression" at all.
@@JamesRichards-mj9kw they were poor before the treaty, they seem to be thriving after England pulled out, what do you call that? You did it to India also...so spare me.
@@billofrightsamend4 Ireland was impoverished for over 50 years after leaving the UK.
It was Scotland that colonised Ulster.
@@billofrightsamend4Éire only got that prosperous after the '80s.
"Béal na Bláth".
James Connolly was born in Scotland/Edinburgh he was a British citizen 🇬🇧
People of the Irish Republic are citizens. People of Britain are subjects.
@@davekeating. Everyone in the UK has been a citizen since 1981, and arguably since 1948.
Lol Scotland, lol no such place. Northern England.
For the record every Irishman born before 1949 is.
Did they ever find out who killed Michael?
Dev was a jesuit
I love my brothers and sisters.. I'm a mess cuz I love my Irish friends get there from the Roman Catholic
Racist Nazi Godfather MC after his hugely superior convoy is ambushed by 5 men exposes himself to shoot at the retreating enemy so he can claim to be a combat veteran to those in the Dail who mock him for never having a single shot in the conflict? A fitting end to a cowardly monster!
After 2 and a half decades of to-ing and fro-ing ive come to the conclusion that the decision to sign the treaty was a bad one.
Collins although a great rebel and tactician in the flying columns let the island down when he effectively became an officer of Britain and with the aid of covert british military, intel and military hardware hunted the men that truly stood for Eire.
"A Stepping stone toward freedom" he proudly proclaimed after the treaty got voted through. Well, that didnt work out too well and as for now, we have zero sovereignty. Under rule of Brussels and the European lawmakers.
Its terribly sad
The British government of the time threatened war on Ireland if the treaty was not signed.Keep that in mind.
@@61505 well i guess we can't discern how credible that threat truly was.
My sense is that they could well have been bluffing, given they were willing to give up 3/4 of the island. Either way, my original point is that the fight for sovereignty was all for nothing, given how when it comes to significant decision/law making, its done on our behest in Brussels.
@@richiem7716 The threat was very credible given what the British government and military had already done during the war of independence and the fact that they still had their sense of arrogance/pride/power because of still having their empire. Ireland after the treaty was a free state and still basically overseen by the British government even though technically run by an Irish parliament.
@@richiem7716 The EU is of more recent times. I guess it has something to do with the situation that between 1949 and 1973 , the Irish government found it hard to keep Ireland economically afloat,as there was still high emigration from Ireland due to high unemployment/ economic stagnation .
@@61505 fair points Martina but reasons unacceptable for compliance by the fallen heroes. Hard times surely (financially), but dignity and sovereignty intact. Especially when u see the totalitarian nature of the 'government' thru the china flu and their bullying tactics on those who deem the coerced penetration of skin a violation of their bodily autonomy.
All in all the state of Ireland just saddens me and i can understand the sense of nihilism many feel.
MC wasn’t assassinated, he was killed in battle during a skirmish.
He was Murdered in a Ambush by a British Spy.
@@donnachamcgowan He was killed by an anti-Treaty IRA man.
@@JamesRichards-mj9kw Yes by an ex British army sniper,believe it or not.
@@desmondhull5778 Collins had betrayed Ireland.
@@JamesRichards-mj9kw He gave his life for Ireland,not like De Valera.
He got himself killed because he was thick over all the ribbing he got over not having been involved in the war with Britain. Died trying to prove himself🍷