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Irish Leader Michael Collins papercraft fanart

Michael Collins was an Irish revolutionary, soldier, and politician and a leading figure in the early-20th-century Irish struggle for independence. He participated in Easter Rising of 1916, then he was elected as a Teachta Dála for South Cork in 1918, and was appointed Minister for Finance in the First Dáil. After First Dáil declared the independence of the Irish Republic, Michael Collins served as Director of Organisation and Adjutant General for the Irish Volunteers, and Director of Intelligence of the Irish Republican Army during the War of Independence. He gained fame as a guerrilla warfare strategist, planning and directing many successful attacks on British forces, such as the “Bloody Sunday” assassinations of key British intelligence agents in November 1920.

Later, he was sent to negotiate a Treaty with UK and following it’s signing became a Chairman of the Provisional Government of the Irish Free State in January 1922 and served as a country leader until his assassination in an ambush by anti-Treaty forces on 22 August 1922.

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