General Michael Collins
Posted on 30 September 2008
Michael John (”Mick”) Collins (Irish: Mícheál Seán Ó Coileáin; 16 October 1890 – 22 August 1922) was an Irish revolutionary leader, Minister for Finance in the First Dáil of 1919, Director of Intelligence for the IRA, and member of the Irish delegation during the Anglo-Irish Treaty negotiations. Subsequently he was both Chairman of the Provisional Government and Commander-in-chief of the National Army. He was shot and killed in August 1922, during the Irish Civil War. (Wikipedia)
A memorial I spotted pinned to the wall of the Eldon Hotel in Skibereen, Co Cork. The hotel itself is run down now and I thought it was actually closed until I saw the cork-guide.ie website. Anyone been in there recently?
PS. Ciara has posted a few photos from the Women’s Mini Marathon on Sunday. Looks like they had great fun!
3 responses to General Michael Collins
And they chose to remember him with an amerikan date format. Nice.
Hadn’t even noticed that. I always interchanged the day and month if the month was fully written out.
The dd-mm-yyyy vs mm-dd-yyyy totally annoys me though. mm-dd makes no sense to me.
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