Michael Collins was part of an Irish Government delegation sent to London ... he was put in charge of IRA intelligence there. With the death of Collins in 1922 came a change in circumstances ...

Michael Collins and Éamon de Valera are two of the most iconic figures in Irish history ... father George Plunkett was also sentenced to death for his participation in the Rising, as was ...

Lavery painted ‘Michael Collins, Love of Ireland’ while Collins’s body ... One journalist proclaimed of Collins that ‘the pallor of death adds nothing terrible. It seems only to bring ...

In 1923, a monument to Michael Collins and Arthur Griffith outside ... “They gave their lives in doing the duty to Ireland, and this was the death that they had always looked for and desired.

The armoured car ‘Sliabh na mBan’ from the convoy that made the historic journey on the day of Michael Collins’ death was also ... for one Cork’s and Ireland’s greatest hero.

Michael Collins was the command module pilot for Apollo 11, the spaceflight that took humans to the Moon for the first time Jason Hahn is a former Human Interest and Sports Reporter for PEOPLE.