Collins relatives Members of the defense forces together with family members of Collins will attend an event to mark a hundred years of the death of General Michael Collins at Cathal Brugha Barracks in Dublin today.
General Collins was shot dead during an ambush in Béal Na Bláth in Co Cork on August 22, 1922.Yesterday, Taoiseach and Tánaiste spoke to the crowd of thousands of people who gathered at Béal Na Bláth to commemorate the hundred years.
Some of his relatives will visit the military archive of the defense forces in Cathal Brugha Barracks and visit the Barrack Museum, which is home to the death mask of General Collins.Also exhibited was the desk, the flag that united the coffin, and the 45 colt pistol.This event will include the address by Brigadier General Tony Cudmore and Mary Clare O’Malley, Cucu General Collins relatives.
This will be followed by a ceremony to lay down a bouquet of flowers, one minute silence, play national anthem and air corps flying past.The Head of Defense Forces Lieutenant General Seán Clancy will also attend the event the Collins relatives.
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The civil war was almost two months old when Michael Collins died.Ira Anti-Nursing has been defeated comprehensively in his efforts to hold cities and cities against pro-maintenance national army. The first Dublin had fallen, then the cities of Munster were arrested.Ira Chief of Staff Liam Lynch, ordered returning to the tactics of the War War of Independence War, with great emphasis on the ambush of troops and free state convoys in Collins relatives.
Michael Collins, the Supreme Commander of the National Army, was on the West Cork inspection tour on August 22.He traveled with a small convoy, armored trucks, armored cars, open tour cars, and motorbikes, maybe twenty people.On his journey to West Cork that morning, he was seen through Béal Na Bláth by an Ira surveillance, and an ambush was planned in Collins relatives.
The convoy of Michael Collins then made a fatal mistake by traveling again in the same path that night, and ran directly to the ambush in Béal Na Bláth.The IRA unit that put on an ambush has actually begun to evacuate the position, after it was decided that the convoy would not return like that.
Only a few men are left in an ambush position when a convoy appears.In an intense shot exchange, Michael Collins was shot through his head and died almost instantly.His death means that the two most senior men on the pro-maintenance side, Arthur Griffith and Michael Collins, have died within ten days of each other.