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"I have signed my own death warrant' were the prophetic words of Michael Collins on signing the Treaty in 1921. within the year, he was to be slain in an ambush at Béal na mBláth.
Béal na mBláth (Mouth of the Flowers), is a tiny village in West Cork. Collins commemorations are held each year anniversary of his death. The road is now...
It is a little known fact that on two occasions in Michael Collins’s short life, he could have possibly changed the course of Irish history by emigrating to America.
Michael’s link with America was through his older brother Patrick, who had emigrated to Chicago in his early twenties and joined the Chicago Police Force, where he rapidly rose through the ranks. Patrick later married an Irish girl, Emma Jewell and had one child, a son. They spent the rest of their lives in America, never returning to Ireland.[/dropcap]
The first occasion Michael seriously considered joining his brother, was in the Spring of 1915, during the early days of the First World War. Michael was just a young man of twenty-four, working in London as a clerk, but with the possibility of conscription looming, he decided to join the American Guarantee Trust Company of New York, whose British offices were based in Lombard Street, in the City of London.
Michael Collins was one of the most charismatic figures to emerge from Ireland's struggle for independence in the early part of the twentieth century.
The son of a farmer in remote West Cork, Michael was still only fifteen when he left Ireland to join his sister Hannie in London, the capital city of the British Empire, of which Ireland was still a part.
Here, he was to progress from post office boy clerk to working as an accountant in a prestigious American Bank in the city, work that gave him experience in both financial and organisational skills, which he would put to good use on his return to Dublin in 1916.
