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This is the first book about Michael Collins by an author with experience in security, party politics, and covert political abuses.

A lecturer in history and social anthropology, S M Sigerson has been active in NGOs, community groups, and electoral politics, throughout her life. This led to specializing in community event security and public safety. A distant relation of the late Donn Piatt, she comes from a family which also has a long history of military service in various conflicts.

Since the 1970s, she has devoted on-going in-depth study to the subject of secretive interference in lawful political activity, including politically-motivated killings.

Her fascination with Michael Collins’�・story inspired six years’�・intensive research on h
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Did Dalton shell the Four Courts?


Notices should be served on the armed men in the illegal occupation of the Four Courts and Fowler Hall that night, ordering them to evacuate the buildings and to surrender up all arms and property, and that in the event of their refusing to do so, the necessary military action would be taken at once.
– Provisional Government decision 27 June 1922

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“A nation which fails to adequately remember salient points of
its own history, is like a person with Alzheimer's. And that can be a
social disease of a most destructive nature.”
S.M. Sigerson, The Assassination of Michael Collins: What Happened At Béal na mBláth?

“History repeats itself. As do the methods used by those specializing in the elimination of leaders who unite people into a strong force for dignity, justice and self-determination.”
S.M. Sigerson, The Assassination of Michael Collins: What Happened at Béal na mBláth?

“Captivating to men, Anne was also sharp, assertive, subtle, calculating, vindictive, a power dresser and a power player, perhaps a figure to be more admired than liked.”
Eric Ives, The Life and Death of Anne Boleyn

“History repeats itself. As do the methods used by those specializing in the elimination of leaders who unite people into a strong force for dignity, justice and self-determination.”
S.M. Sigerson, The Assassination of Michael Collins: What Happened at Béal na mBláth?

“In history, as in traveling, men usually see only what they already had in their own minds; and few learn much from history, who do not bring much with them to its study.”
John Stuart Mill, The Subjection of Women

“The best index to a person's character is how he treats people who can't do him any good, and how he treats people who can't fight back.”
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“One can acquire everything in solitude except character.”
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