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Author : J. B. E. Hittle
Publisher : Potomac Books, Inc.
Page : 453 pages
File Size : 33,55 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1612341284
How the British Secret Service failed to neutralize Sinn Fein and the IRA
Author : Michael Collins
Publisher :
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 14,5 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Ireland
ISBN :
In these essays and speeches Michael Collins spelled out his vision for the future of Ireland, as well as his analysis of its past. Some of them are written in the anguish of a civil war which he struggled so hard to avoid, and in which he saw his country torn apart while seeking to establish and defend democracy, liberty and stability. Michael Collins’ overall vision is still inspiring; he sees the necessity for open trade with overseas markets, for investment and management, and for putting the 'national economy on a sound footing' as a priority. --
Author : Gabriel Doherty
Publisher :
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 39,89 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
Originating at a conference held at UCC in 1997, these essays draw on scholarly findings in the fields of history, political science and folklore, providing a professional evaluation of Michael Collins and his contribution to the making of the Irish State.
Author : J. B. E. Hittle
Publisher : Potomac Books, Inc.
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 15,54 MB
Release : 2011-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1597975354
As leader of the Irish Republican Brotherhood and then the Irish Republican Army (IRA), Michael Collins developed a bold, new strategy to use against the British administration of Ireland in the early twentieth century. His goal was to attack its well-established system of spies and informers, wear down British forces with a sustained guerrilla campaign, and force a political settlement that would lead to a free Irish Republic. Michael Collins and the Anglo-Irish War reveals that the success of the Irish insurgency was not just a measure of Collins’s revolutionary genius, as has often been claimed. British miscalculations, overconfidence, and a failure to mount a sustained professional intelligence effort to neutralize the IRA contributed to Britain’s defeat. Although Britain possessed the world’s most professional secret service, the British intelligence community underwent a politically driven and ill-advised reorganization in early 1919, at the very moment that Collins and the IRA were going on the offensive. Once Collins neutralized the local colonial spy service, the British had no choice but to import professional secret service agents. But Britain’s wholesale reorganization of its domestic counterintelligence capability sidelined its most effective countersubversive agency, MI5, leaving the job of intelligence management in Ireland to Special Branch civilians and a contingent of quickly trained army case officers, neither group being equipped—or inclined—to mount a coordinated intelligence effort against the insurgents. Britain’s appointment of a national intelligence director for home affairs in 1919—just as the Irish revolutionary parliament published its Declaration of Independence—was the decisive factor leading to Britain’s disarray against the IRA. By the time the War Office reorganized its intelligence effort against Collins in mid-1920, it was too late to reverse the ascendancy of the IRA. Michael Collins and the Anglo-Irish War takes a fresh approach to the subject, presenting it as a case study in intelligence management under conditions of a broader counterinsurgency campaign. The lessons learned from this disastrous episode have stark relevance for contemporary national security managers and warfighters currently engaged in the war on terrorism.
Author : Michael Hopkinson
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 49,41 MB
Release : 2002-11-20
Category : History
ISBN : 0773570764
The war was prosecuted ruthlessly by the Irish Republican Army which, paralleling the political efforts of Sinn Féin, hoped to break Britain's will to rule Ireland and create an independent Irish republic. The British retaliated by introducing two new irregular forces into Ireland, the Black and Tans and the Auxiliaries. Fighting took place principally in counties Cork, Limerick, Tipperary, Monaghan, Armagh, Clare, Kerry, and Longford. It was sporadic but vicious, with fewer than 2,000 IRA volunteers facing over 50,000 crown forces. The IRA depended upon energetic local leaders -- where there were none, there was little fighting.
Author : Anne Dolan
Publisher : Gill & Macmillan Ltd
Page : 587 pages
File Size : 47,53 MB
Release : 2018-10-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 178841053X
'It was the most providential escape yet. It will probably have the effect of making them think that I am even more mysterious than they believe me to be, and that is saying a good deal.' Michael Collins knew the power of his persona, and capitalised on what people wanted to believe. The image we have of him comes filtered through a sensational lens, exaggerated out of all proportion. We see what we have come to expect: 'the man who won the war', the centre of a web of intelligence that 'brought the British Empire to its knees'. He comes to us as a mixture of truth and lies, propaganda and misunderstanding. The willingness to see him as the sum of the Irish revolution, and in turn reduce him to a caricature of his many parts, clouds our view of both the man and the revolution. Drawing on archives in Ireland, Britain and the United States, the authors question our traditional assumptions about Collins. Was he the man of his age, or was he just luckier, more brazen, more written about and more photographed than the rest? Despite the pictures of him in uniform during the last weeks of his life, Collins saw very little of the actual fight. He was chiefly an organiser and a strategist. Should we remember him as a master of the mundane rather than the romantic figure of the blockbuster film? The eight thematic, highly illustrated chapters scrutinise different aspects of Collins' life: origins, work, war, politics, celebrity, beliefs, death and afterlives. Approaching him through the eyes of contemporaries and historians, friends and enemies, this provocative book reveals new insights, challenging what we think we know about him and, in turn, what we think we know about the Irish revolution.
Author : Michael Foy
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 30,40 MB
Release : 2008-08-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0752495909
Michael Collins is often thought of as Ireland's lost leader: a man born into a revolutionary environment who became a skilled statesman and military leader. This book looks in at Collins' key role in the Anglo Irish War using primary sources which have not previously been available.
Author : Frank O'Connor
Publisher :
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 43,15 MB
Release : 1937
Category : Ireland
ISBN :
Death in Michael Collins and the Irish Revolution is a fascinating biography of Irish revolutionary, soldier and politician who was a leading figure in the early twentieth century Irish struggle for independence, Michael Collins (1890-1922).Written by famed Irish novelist and short-story writer Frank O’Connor, and first published in 1937, the book covers the period of Collins’s life from the Easter Rising in 1916 to his death during the Irish Civil War in 1922. Unlike most conventional biographies of famous leaders, the author, who himself served with the Anti-Treaty faction during the Irish Civil War, establishes a clear goal in portraying Collins’s character and human qualities above his major achievements. Through his friendship with Richard Hayes, Frank O’Connor was able to meet and interview many people who had known Collins, in particular Collins’ secretary, Joe O’Reilly, who provided invaluable information.In a novel-length biography, stripped of boring detail, Frank O’Connor brings alive the legendary figure of Michael Collins. He uses the factual material from the official biographies to paint in a background that is strictly accurate and historically correct. Against this background strides the recognisably human, extremely vital and challenging figure of him who was to be prophetically nicknamed "The Big Fellow." This portrait, vigorously limned by the word-painting of which Frank O’Connor is such an acknowledged master, will live long in the reader’s memory. Having read it, you will say "Now, I know Collins." -- Provided by publisher.
Author : Sean McMahon
Publisher : Mercier Press Ltd
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 50,91 MB
Release : 2010-12-07
Category : History
ISBN : 1856357309
The stories of these conflicts, with their scores of killings, torture, reprisals and long- lasting bitterness are told concisely in this book. &newpara;Easter 1916 – the rebellion which took place in Ireland 90 years ago was arguably the most momentous event in this country's history. &newpara;The War of Independence – the guerrilla war, characterised by marvellous courage and miserable cruelty. &newpara;The Civil War – few episodes in Irish history are as poignant, bloody and unnecessary. &newpara;This book traces the causes, events and consequences of these events. It will help a peaceful generation for which the bloody birth of modern Ireland is ancient history, to gain a better understanding of the essence of their nation.
Author : Peter Hart
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 529 pages
File Size : 20,2 MB
Release : 2007-01-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0143038540
Few leaders in history have been as mythologized as Michael Collins. Before his death at 31, he had fought in the Easter Rising, organized the IRA and out-spied British intelligence, negotiated the Anglo-Irish Treaty, and run the first independent government in Ireland. Peter Hart’s groundbreaking biography restores humanity to this mythical figure. Drawing on previously unknown sources, delving into Collins’s pre-revolutionary past, and assessing the methods—and the costs—of his rise to power, Mick reveals a man of often ruthless ambition, more politician than soldier, whose friendships went no farther than his interests. A work as thrilling as it is authoritative.