The Birthplace of Michael Collins - Woodfield, Clonakilty, Co Cork
This video explores the history, construction, conservation, and adaptions of the building over time.
Micheal Collins Museum, Clonakilty, County Cork, Ireland
Michael Collins Birth place
County Cork. Ireland.
Gen. Michael Collins Center ~ Birthplace
Recorded on April 17, 2010 using a Flip Video camcorder.
Michael Collins Monument
Michael O’Mahony, grand nephew of Michael Collins speaking at the ceremony to mark the 50th anniversary of the erection of a monument to Michael Collins at Sams Cross, Clonakilty, Co Cork.
Video by Dan Linehan
Unveiling The Michael Collins Statue
Michael Collins (Part 1)
This video is the first, of a series of video's which look into the death of Michael Collins. This particular video is only a brief intro.
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The ballad of Michael Collins
The ballad of Michael Collins. The 'big fella' born Clonakilty, County Cork, Ireland. Commander-in-chief of the Easter Rising Irish War of Independence and Irish Civil war. Born in Sam's Cross, West Cork, Ireland, Collins was the third son and youngest of eight children. Most biographies state his date of birth as 16 October 1890; however, his tombstone lists his date of birth as 12 October 1890. His father, also called Michael, had become a member of the republican Fenian movement, but had left and settled down to farming. The elder Collins was 60 years old when he married Marianne O'Brien, then 23, in 1875. The marriage was apparently happy and they raised eight children on their 90-acre farm, Woodfield. Michael was the youngest child; he was only six years old when his father died. On his death bed his father (who was the seventh son of a seventh son) predicted that Michael's sister Helena would go on to become a nun (which she did).[1] He then turned to the family and told them to take care of Michael, because One day he'll be a great man. He'll do great work for Ireland.[2]
Collins was a bright and precocious child, with a fiery temper and a passionate feeling of nationalism. This was spurred on by a local blacksmith, James Santry, and later, at the Lisavaird National School by a local school headmaster, Denis Lyons, a member of the Irish Republican Brotherhood (IRB).
After leaving school, the 15-year-old Collins followed in the footsteps of many people from Ireland, especially of the Clonakilty area, and moved to London. While there he lived with his elder sister, and studied at King's College London. After taking the British Civil Service examination in February 1906,[3] he was employed by the Post Office from July 1906. In 1910, he moved to London where he became a messenger at a London firm, Horne and Company.[3] In 1915, he moved to the Guaranty Trust Company of New York where he remained until his return to Ireland the following year.[4]
He joined the London GAA and, through this, the Irish Republican Brotherhood, a secret, oath-bound society dedicated to achieving Irish independence. Sam Maguire, a Church of Ireland republican from Dunmanway, County Cork, introduced the 19-year-old Collins into the IRB.
Michael Collins first became known during the Easter Rising in 1916. A skilled organiser of considerable intelligence, he was highly respected in the IRB, so much so that he was made financial advisor to Count Plunkett, father of one of the Rising's organisers, Joseph Mary Plunkett, whose aide-de-camp Collins later became.
When the Rising itself took place on Easter Monday, 1916, he fought alongside Patrick Pearse and others in the General Post Office in Dublin. The Rising became (as expected by many) a military disaster. While some celebrated the fact that a rising had happened at all, believing in Pearse's theory of blood sacrifice (namely that the deaths of the Rising's leaders would inspire others), Collins railed against it, notably the seizure of indefensible and very vulnerable positions such as St Stephen's Green that were impossible to escape from and difficult to supply. (During the War of Independence he ensured the avoidance of such sitting targets, with his soldiers operating as flying columns who waged a guerrilla war against the British, suddenly attacking then just as quickly withdrawing, minimising losses and maximising effectiveness.)
Collins, like many of the other participants, was arrested, almost executed[5] and wound up at Frongoch internment camp. By the time of the general release, Collins had already become one of the leading figures in the post-rising Sinn Féin, a small nationalist party which the British government and the Irish media wrongly blamed for the Rising. It was quickly infiltrated by survivors of the Rising, so as to capitalise on the notoriety the movement had gained through British attacks. By October 1917, Collins had risen to become a member of the executive of Sinn Féin and director of organisation of the Irish Volunteers; Éamon de Valera was president of both organisations.
Michael Collins - Part 2 of 3
Transit Upper Intermediate Unit 7 The Emerald Isle
Tim Crowley speech at Michael Collins and Eamon Broy 100th anniversary
Tim Crowley, relative of Michael Collins and Co-founder of the Michael Collins Centre in Clonakilty, Co. Cork giving a speech at the 100th anniversary Remembrance Celebration of Michael Collins being smuggled into the D.M. P. Police Station by Eamon Broy. Introduction by Garda Stephen Moore. Filmed in Pearse Street Garda Station on the 7th April 2019 by Marcus Howard.
Michael Collins Birth Place and Assassiation Sites
Michael Collins burth place and assassination sites
Visiting Michael Collins birth place
It was a great day visiting Michael Collins birth place
'I stand for the people of rural Ireland' - Michael Collins TD
Independent TD Michael Collins believes that Cork South-West has been forgotten by the government and he wants to put it back on the map in terms of health, older people, developing rural Ireland and roads, and agriculture and fisheries.
This video was paid for by Michael Collins TD
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Michael Collins | Who's Who in the Irish Revolution Episode 2
Michael Collins stands as one of the most important figures in Irish history. He would oversee the Dáil Loan, terrorise Dublin Castle and rise to the top of every organisation he was involved with. In this episode I take a look at his life leading up to the War of Independence, from his beginnings in London to the 1916 Rising to the creation of his intelligence network. Collins will feature in numerous future episodes and play a major role in the Irish Revolution.
References:
Tim Pat Coogan - “Michael Collins”
Peter Hart - “Mick: The Real Michael Collins”
Gabriel Doherty & Dermot Keogh - “Michael Collins and the making of the Irish State”
Joseph E.A. Connell Jnr - “Michael Collins: Dublin 1916-22
Joe Good - “Enchanted by Dreams”
John M. Regan - “Myth and the Irish State”
Doheny GAA Club::Sam Maguire -
Collins 22 Society -
Century Ireland -
Picture of London GAA Team -
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Main Sources:
Military Archives -
Atlas of the Irish Revolution -
Maurice Walsh - “Bitter Freedom” -
Charles Townshend - The Republic -
Michael Hopkinson - ”The Irish War of Independence” -
Diarmuid Ferriter - “A Nation and not a Rabble” -
Photos:
Military Archives
NLI Flickr account
Wiki Commons
1922 - Michael Collins Campaigning in Cork, Ireland (speed corrected w/ music)
Irish independence leader Michael Collins campaigning in Cork, Ireland shortly before his death in August 1922. Set to a natural rate and added in music for ambiance. The music is Reminisces of Ireland No. 1 and 2 by Sodero's Band from 1917, uploaded by acousticedison
COLLINS BARRACKS MUSEUM CORK
A slide show that gives an overview of the museum. Admission is free and there is free parking on the barracks side of the street!
Michael Collins' house in London
#MichaelCollins
Geata Arts - Samhain '17 - Clonakilty, Cork
The first annual Samhain Festival Parade in Clonakilty, Cork, Ireland.
Michael Collins Part 4 1919 June to September
Directed and edited by Marcus Howard. The origins of what would become The Squad. A feature length in-depth documentary told by numerous relatives of Michael Collins as well as expert historians documenting the moves and counter-moves of the Irish War of Independence. Arms smuggling, intelligence operations, weapons demonstrations, raising of finance, assassinations, government suppression and moving personal stories help paint a fuller picture of not just Michael Collins but also of the people around him and their struggle to bring about Irish freedom, often risking their lives in the process. Learn about how partition was being discussed in 1919, Unionist unrest, a police force representing an Empire under siege.
Featuring Joe Connell, Tim Pat Coogan, Derek Molyneux, Dominic Price, John Dorney, Kieran McMullen, Adriana Moura, Michael Doran and Michael Shanahan. Aine Broy, the daughter of Eamon Ned Broy, also features Michael Collins' relatives including Michael O' Mahony, grand nephew of Michael Collins, Tim Crowley of the Michael Collins Centre Museum, outside Clonakilty, grand niece of Michael Collins, Mary Clare Collins Powell and great grand nephew Aengus Collins O'Malley.
Credits:
Spike Island Actors
Adam Duggan
Noel McCarthy
Sean Hagermark
Karl Grosch
Claudine Kavanagh
Dave Swift Facebook: Claíomh
Lord Edward's Own Facebook: Lord Edward's Own
Enniscorthy Historical Reenactment Society
Additional Filming:
Jean O'Donnell
Cathy Keane
Terry Crosbie
Paulo Rezzutti
Frances Rocks
Music:Eddie Sherlock & The Rattling Kind All Around The TownFacebook: Eddie Sherlock Music The Ratling Kind
Mutefish De La FermeFacebook: Mutefish
Courtesy ofThe Black Donnellys
Dave Rooney/Dave Browne
The Brazen HeadDreamFacebook: The Black Donnellys Dublin
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Tara Tine Drum SnareLambegFacebook: Tara Tine - Muso/Musician/Writer of Songs & Stuff
Roisin Ward Morrow The Wounded HuzzarFacebook: Roisin Ward Morrow
Communications Workers Union Band Roisin Dubh Mise EireConductor: Patrick Scarlett
Colorised photos by:
John O'Byrne Facebook: Old Irish & War Photos In Colour
Matt Loughrey Facebook: My Colorful Past
Marcus Howard Facebook: Easter Rising Stories
Thanks to:
Pearse Street Garda Station
Christina McMullen
Darren Kelly
Anthony O'Hagan
Toirdhealach Ó'Braoin
Gillean Robertson Miller
Olivia Leonard
James Langton
Clare Cowley
Joni Scanlon
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Filmed in Dublin,
Clonakilty,
Spike Island,
London, Florida USA,
Sao Bernardo do Campo, Brazil
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