Video: 'IRELAND: IRA leader Michael Collins killed in ambush (1922)'
(Tuesday, August 22, 1922, as Collins’ convoy approached Béal na Bláth between 7:30 and 8:00 p.m. Irish Standard Time; during the Irish Civil War, part of the Irish revolutionary period) — Michael Collins, a founder of the Irish Republican Army and a key figure in Ireland’s independence movement, was shot to death today in an ambush at Béal na Bláth in County Cork, Ireland, apparently by Irish Republican Army members opposed to the Anglo-Irish Treaty that Collins had co-signed. Continue reading Irish revolutionary Michael Collins shot to death in ambush by anti-Treaty forces 100 years ago this hour #OnThisDay #OTD (Aug 22 1922)