Mick : the real Michael Collins / Peter Hart.
Mick : the real Michael Collins / Peter Hart.
By
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Hart, Peter, 1963-
Publication Date
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2005-2006
Publication Information
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New York : Viking,
Edition
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1st American ed.
Physical Description
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485 p. : ill.
Subject Term
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Revolutionaries -- Ireland -- Biography.
Geographic Term
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Ireland -- History -- War of Independence, 1919-1921 -- Biography.
Ireland -- History -- Civil War, 1922-1923 -- Biography.
Summary
:
Few people in history have been as mythologized as Michael Collins. Before his death at the age of thirtyone, Collins fought in the Easter Rising, organized the I.R.A., outspied British intelligence, negotiated the Anglo-Irish Treaty, and ran the first independent government of Ireland. To this day, millions revere him as the father of modern Ireland. Yet Collins was first and foremost a man who sought power and exercised it ruthlessly. More politician than soldier, he surrounded himself with followers loyal only to him. And his death left behind a troubled legacy: an I.R.A. he could not control, a Northern Ireland problem he did not solve, and a civil war he could not prevent. In "Mick," acclaimed historian Peter Hart explores Collins's life and asks what made him such an extraordinary and complex person.
Language
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English
ISBN
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9780670031474
Library | Collection | Collection | Call Number | Status |
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Gander (GGR) | Adult Bio | Adult Biography | B C69H | Checked In |
Grand Falls-Windsor (CGF) Harmsworth | Adult Bio | Adult Biography | B C69H | Back Room |
St. John's - A.C. Hunter (SJH) | Adult Bio NL Ref - Cons Rm | Adult Biography NL Reference - Conservation Room | B C69H | NonCirculating |