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-Suitable for ages 7 and up-
'The freedom to achieve freedom’ – a book to help children discover the life of the remarkable Irish political hero Michael Collins!
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...
Published by Gill Books
Hardcover
32 pages
195 x 255 mm
ISBN 9780717194100