My ancestors came from Bere Island,the O' Sullivan's.

The new book 'Solving the Murder of Michael Collins' takes these findings into account.

When I was a kid we were on the hop from school one day in Middleton, and we decided to hide out in an old broken down building for the day. While wandering around the building and exploring, as kids do, I found a chunk of rusted metal, and something about it caught my eye so I gave it a closer look. It turned out to be a Lee-Enfield just like the one in this video, but without the barrel or stock. I didn't know it was a Lee-Enfield until years later when the internet became a thing, and I didn't know Collins used one until now.. But somehow I've held onto it for the last 30 years, even after moving houses a few times, and it's still sitting on my mantlepiece. It's kind of an eerie feeling knowing that Collins died with one in his hands, especially since I'm living a stone's throw from where he lived and died.

The City of London people killed Collins to make way for their guy.

Still wont foegive Dev or those anti treaty trasitors

WHAT A AWSOME STORY,,,MAKE A MOVIE ON THIS .!!!!

So this IS THE CAR . Yes, This is a Replica 😅

Excellent

The worst Enemy of Ireland are Irish themselves OMG .

Why was Devalera there ?

They were expecting trouble .Why ,why would you expect trouble in your own county ?

Englands greatest spy is a must read to shed a different light as to why collins was assinated

The henious murder of irish people Nationalist by a foreign Country were needless .They got away with it for 800 years .Collins gave them a touch of their own Medicine..

Incorrect they group refused to let dev go to eng....as he had served a prison sentence in eng .and England wanted to catch him again execut.him...m.collins always made his own decision.....it was an accident he was shot by one of his own men in cross fire...

The people voted for the treaty the Dail voted for the treaty. Develera refused to accept the decision and, is responsible for the civil war in Ireland. How different the country would have been if Collins had lived.

May he never be forgotten, and spoke of for eternity 🇮🇪

I enjoyed the audio but found the video was unwatchable. Still a great listen though

That's a mysterious twist that dev was there ...,seems like a bit of a tall tail.

A set up from start to finish.. why did they let him drive into a hornets nest in an open car? How did the ira ambush team know he was coming back by that route? No doubt an agent in the cavalcade.. only one man knows the true story of Beal na Blath..

after the killing off Collins the free state army went on a killing spree evening shooting unarmed prisoners off war terrible times

Typical Cork bollocks'ssss. Killing one of their own fine men. Never to be forgiven.

What strikes me most about the death of Michael Collins was the total, unnecessary, and senseless waste of a tremendously talented man. He was only 31 when he was killed: such a loss for Ireland and by the hands of his own countrymen to boot. Collins was a realist at a time when his country needed men of his practical mindedness. No, the Treaty he helped negotiate was far from what the ardent Republicans desired, but Collins was correct in seeing it as a stepping-stone to ultimate independence by giving the Irish people "the freedom to achieve freedom."

Rest in peace and and heaven God bless you and thank you and all our freedom fighters thank you all and God bless you all 🙏🇮🇪

Thanks mate. Why wombat? You Aussie too?

De Valera was in Walsh’s safe house in Bweeng when Collins was shot, many different stories as to where he was I wonder which one is true?

Devalera’s treatment of Collins was abysmal, he wouldn’t go to London to negotiate with the UK government himself and sent Collins instead. Collins came back with what at the time was the best deal he could get at the time, with the possibility of negotiating a better Treaty at a later date. But Devalera then tried to blame Collins for letting the Irish People down, when it was himself who had, which in turn started the civil war.

very detailed and interesting i remember an old lady an english lady told us she remembers the time and she would say goodness he was a good looking man

Devalera was scum that civil war should never of took place ,they should of debated further replenished then adopt a different strategy later . Terrible loss of life on both sides .God watch over ya Mick 'The big Fella'

Omg I’ve never seen a video like this before. Thank you so much for the info!

I had a Brilliant childhood on this island

It's lovely to hear Colm Harringtons voice again.

Many a joy rider enjoyed those beautiful Cork Harbour scenes back in the 80's and 90's! :-)

I have lots of happy memories camping on Cape Clear island in the 70s & 80s

John G is that guides name, we were there only today, he was so helpful and the family had a great day out👍🏼

Soo kewl

great video thanks you

I love that! The bus driver knew it was special and contacted the birdy people! So happy to see the beautiful ppl of Ireland giving such a warm greeting to a little lonesome thrush from north america. Good work guys!!

How cool is that! A little ambassador from Northern America!