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Biography of the revolutionary period: Michael Collins and Kevin Barry*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 July 2016

Michael Hopkinson*
Affiliation:
Department of History, University of Stirling

Abstract

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Copyright
Copyright © Irish Historical Studies Publications Ltd 1993

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Footnotes

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Michael Collins: a biography. By Tim Pat Coogan. Pp xiv, 480. London: Hutchinson. 1990. £18.99.

References

1 Mulcahy’s notes on the second volume of Piaras Béaslaí’s biography of Collins (U.CD. Archives, Mulcahy papers, P7/D/67).

2 Sinn Féin Funds Case (National Archives of Ireland, 2B/82/117).

3 Macardle, Dorothy, The Irish Republic (London, 1937).Google Scholar

4 O’Hegarty, P. S., The victory of Sinn Féin (Dublin, 1924).Google Scholar

5 De Valera to Lord Longford, 25 Feb. 1963 (T.C.D., Childers papers, MS 7848).

6 In the 1960s the producer Kevin McCrory had unfulfilled intentions of making a film of Collins’s life, and the same applied to Michael Cimino in the 1980s.

7 O’Faolain, Seán, Vive moi: an autobiography (London, 1965), p. 146.Google Scholar

8 Aiken to Director of Publicity, 18 Apr. 1924 (T.C.D., Childers papers, MS 7847).

9 Seán Hales in Dáil treaty debates, 17 Dec. 1921 [Official report: debate on the treaty between Great Britain and Ireland signed in London on 6th December 1921 (Dublin, n.d.), p. 263).

10 For examples of the I.R.A. leadership’s contempt for the politicians see memo by Liam Lynch, n.d. (U.C.D. Archives, Mulcahy papers, P7/D/70) and Mulcahy on standing orders for G.H.Q. (ibid., P7/A/32).

11 Moylan to O’Donoghue, 20 Aug. 1952 (N.L.I., O’Donoghue papers, MS 31421 (15)).

12 Béaslaí, Piaras, Michael Collins and the making of a new Ireland (2 vols, Dublin, 1926)Google Scholar; O’Connor, Frank, The Big Fellow: Michael Collins and the Irish revolution (London, 1937 Google Scholar; revised ed., Dublin 1965); Taylor, Rex, Michael Collins (London, 1958)Google Scholar; Broin, Leon Ó, Michael Collins (Dublin, 1980).Google Scholar

13 Coogan, Michael Collins, p. 86.

14 Ibid., p. 432.

15 Ibid., p. 229.

16 Ibid., p. 228.

17 Laffan, Michael in Irish Literary Supplement, ix, no. 1 (spring 1990), p. 28.Google Scholar

18 For such new material see Coogan, Michael Collins, pp 333–85; Hopkinson, Michael, Green against green: the Irish Civil War (Dublin, 1988), pp 7788 Google Scholar; idem, ‘The Craig-Collins pacts of 1922: two attempted reforms of the Northern Ireland government’ in I.H.S., xxvii, no. 106 (Nov. 1990), pp 145–58.

19 Forester, Michael Collins, 2nd ed., p. ix.

20 Ryle Dwyer, T., Eamon de Valera (Dublin, 1980)Google Scholar; idem, Michael Collins and the treaty: his differences with de Valera (Dublin, 1981).

21 Edwards, Owen Dudley, Eamon de Valera (Cardiff, 1987).Google Scholar

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