224 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 22 cm
Contents
Foreword / Gabriel Doherty, Dermot Keogh -- Introduction / Mary Banotti -- Challenge of a Collins biography / J.J. Lee -- Michael Collins -- the Granard connection / Margot Gearty -- Geróid O'Sullivan -- friend and ally / Geróid O'Sullivan -- Michael Collins -- Minister for Finance 1919-1922 / Andrew McCarthy -- Collins and intelligence 1919-1923 -- from brotherhood to bureaucracy / Eunan O'Halpin -- Michael Collins -- a military leader / Peter Young -- Michael Collins -- the northern question 1916-1922 Éamon Phoenix -- Michael Collins -- the legacy and the intestacy / John Regan -- Michael Collins -- his biographers Piaras Béaslaí, Rex Taylor / Deirdre McMahon -- Heroic biographies in folklore and popular culture / Diarmuid O'Giolláin -- Dev and Mick -- the 1922 split as social psychological event / Tom Garvin -- 'Freedom to achieve freedom'? the political ideas of Collins and De Valera / Martin Mansergh -- 'Sorrow but no despair -- the road is marked' the politics of funerals in post -- 1916 Ireland / Gabriel Doherty, Dermot Keogh -- Michael Collins -- an overview / Ronan Fanning
Notes
"Based on the proceedings of a conference ... held at University College Cork on 28 February and 1 March 1997"--Page 7
