91 years ago today one of Ireland's greatest sons was murdered in an ambush at Beal na blath in his own home county of Cork.
"When you have sweated, toiled, had mad dreams, hopeless nightmares, you find yourself in London's streets, cold and dank in the night air. Think - what have I got for Ireland? Something which she has wanted these past 700 years. Will anyone be satisfied with the bargain? Will anyone? I tell you this -early this morning I signed my own death warrant. I though at the time how odd, how ridiculous -a bullet might just as well have done the job 5 years ago." - Michael Collins in a letter to John O'Kane after the Treaty.
"Yerra, they'll never shoot me in my own county" - Michael Collins to Joe O'Reilly just prior to his journey to West Cork in August 1922
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"When you have sweated, toiled, had mad dreams, hopeless nightmares, you find yourself in London's streets, cold and dank in the night air. Think - what have I got for Ireland? Something which she has wanted these past 700 years. Will anyone be satisfied with the bargain? Will anyone? I tell you this -early this morning I signed my own death warrant. I though at the time how odd, how ridiculous -a bullet might just as well have done the job 5 years ago." - Michael Collins in a letter to John O'Kane after the Treaty.
"Yerra, they'll never shoot me in my own county" - Michael Collins to Joe O'Reilly just prior to his journey to West Cork in August 1922

one of a kind 
