Michael Collins: Soldier and Peacemaker

Michael Collins: Soldier and Peacemaker

Discover the soldier and peacemaker that was Michael Collins!

Michael Collins was born in County Cork and was the youngest of eight children.  He moved to London as a teenager but returned to Ireland to fight in the Easter Rising of 1916. By 1919 he was Minister for Finance in the First Dáil.  After the Irish War of Independence, Michael went back to London to negotiate peace.  The resulting Anglo-Irish Treaty established the Irish Free State but depended on an oath of allegiance to the Crown. And so the Irish Civil War began…

John Burke and Kathi ‘Fatti’ Burke are the father–daughter team behind the bestselling, award-winning series of books that include Irelandopedia, Historopedia and Foclóiropedia. Kathi is an illustrator and John is a retired primary school teacher. The first book in their Little Library series, Granuaile, was published in autumn 2018.