Posts Tagged ‘Michael Collins’
19 August 2018: Annual Collins/Griffith commemoration, Glasnevin Cemetery, Dublin 11
On Sunday 19 August 2018 Glasnevin Trust hosted the annual Collins-Griffith commemoration, marking the 96th anniversary of the deaths of both Arthur Griffith and Michael Collins in August 1922. The event was organised by the Collins-Griffith Commemoration Society, Glasnevin Trust and the Defence Forces. Arthur Griffith (1872-1922) was the politician and journalist who founded and later…
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On Wednesday 26 April 2017 Wordwell Books and Hodges Figgis will presented the launch of Joe Connell’s Michael Collins: Dublin 1916-1922. It is unclear whether the republican leader Michael Collins (1890-1922) spent more than a night in Dublin prior to leaving for London to work in the British Post Office in 1906, but his presence there…
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