On behalf of the National Collins22 Society I’d like to thank and congratulate our esteemed member Kieran Gillan for his incredible research and dedication regarding National Army soldiers who died during the Civil War. I’d also like to thank him on behalf of us all for his kind mention and representation of the National Collins22

SATURDAY This weekend, several members of our Society embarked on yet another adventure of West Cork, this time on the trail of Michael Collins and places associated with him. Our first port of call was to the Michael Collins House Museum at 7 Emmet Square situated in the heart of Clonakilty which gives an insight

MICHAEL COLLINS CENTENARY COMMEMORATION 2022, CLONAKILTY, CO CORK. What an honour it was last Saturday for the Collins22 Society to be invited by the Clonakilty Centenary Committee to march in and fly our beautiful banner in their parade.as part if the Michael Collins Centenary Commemoration Festival. On behalf of the Society I would like to

The Collins22 Society were honoured today (14 Aug 2022) to be invited to place a wreath ‘after’ the Collins Griffith Commemoration in Glasnevin. Our Dublin team who attend the grave each week were also honoured to have our work acknowledged at the beginning of An Tánaiste Varadkar’s speech, and that of the late Denis Lenihan.

  Jimmy Murphy’s compelling new play The Chief reveals the man behind the iconic historical figure of Michael Collins. Set against the backdrop of the Irish Civil War, it focuses on the problems facing Collins and the Free State Government as they attempt to build a new Ireland and overcome the vicious divide brought about by the

WHO SHOT MICHAEL COLLINS? The facts about the theories – the theories about the facts, is another piece of outstanding research by renowned historian and author Mr Joe Connell, who travelled all the way from the United States to launch his book at the Lucan Library on 26th of September last, where he gave a

Michael Collins found inner peace at Sligo Gaol, and his three week stay in that prison gave him inner peace, according to his grandniece Mary Claire O’Malley who unveiled a specially commissioned portrait of her Granduncle at Sligo Gaol on the final day of Friends of Sligo Gaol’s ‘Crime and Punishment in 19th/20th Century Ireland

  A section of the Attendance at the General Richard Commemoration, October 23rd 2016 Address by Paul Kehoe T.D. Minister with Responsibility for Defence at the General Richard Mulcahy Commemoration Sunday 23 October 2016 Venue: Ballymoreen, Littleton, Co. Tipperary Distinguished guests, ladies and gentlemen it is a great honour for me to be here today

Collins/Griffith Commemoration Sunday 21st August 2016 Oration given by Leo Varadkar TD, Minister for Social Protection Distinguished guests, ladies and gentlemen. It is an honour to be asked to deliver this year’s oration, and I am grateful to the Collins-Griffith Commemoration Society and Glasnevin Trust for the invitation. One hundred years on from the Rising,