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Title: The Big Fellow by Frank O'Connor ISBN: 0-312-18050-0 Publisher: Picador Pub. Date: 15 February, 1998 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.67 (6 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: A bit stilted, but enjoyable read
Comment: The controversy caused by this biography led it to be banned by the Irish government for decades. Unique in its contemporary view of this important Irish leader, Frank O'Connor's biography suffers from a rather stilted approach. However, what it lacks in historical accuracy and readability, this account of Collins's life proves an enjoyable read and recounts many enlightening first hand accounts of the man.
Rating: 5
Summary: Childhood memories revisited
Comment: I remember reading this book in school in Ireland. Collins was a true patriot, but like most of us he had his faults. The book shows the good and bad at a time in Irish history when life was in some cases very cheap. Collins place in the peace treaty can never be discounted and the controvesy relating to the ambush and death will probably never be fully uncovered. I was and still am touched by his own words when he signed the treaty "today I have signed my own death warrant" a true giant the " Big Fellow ".
Rating: 4
Summary: A Contemporary's View of Michael Collins
Comment: This biography was fascinating to me because it was written much closer to the time of the events related than more recent books on Collins, and was written by a man who fought in the Irish Civil War (in which Collins lost his life)and fought on the side opposite Collins. The book is written in a novelistic style that can sometimes be rather offputting, but it is nonetheless an intriguing view of the most charismatic and, probably, most effective Irish leader ever. Certainly it reveals the great regard in which Collins was, and is, held by his countrymen, even those who did not support him after the Treaty which precipitated the civil war(which Ireland seems only now to be putting behind it).Anyone interested in Michael Collins and the tremendous impact he had on his country should read this book.
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Title: Michael Collins: The Man Who Made Ireland by Tim Pat Coogan ISBN: 0312295111 Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Pub. Date: 17 May, 2002 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Michael Collins and the Troubles: The Struggle for Irish Freedom 1912-1922 by Ulick O'Connor ISBN: 0393316459 Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: 01 November, 1996 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title:Michael Collins ASIN: 0790729407 Publisher: Warner Studios Pub. Date: 22 August, 1997 List Price(USD): $19.98 Comparison N/A, buy it from Amazon for $17.38 |
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Title: Michael Collins: The Man Who Won the War by T. Ryle Dwyer ISBN: 0853429316 Publisher: Mercier Press Pub. Date: 01 November, 1990 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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