Is Michael Collins considered as a hero in Ireland?

Answer 1

depends which side you ask..........my gfriends family...catholic from Belfast...think he is great

Answer 2

Yes Michael Collins is considered a hero here in Ireland!! But not to everyone, some would say that Eamonn De Valera was the true hero...which brings us to the pro and anti treaty! Whoever was pro treaty would say that Collins was the hero and whoever was anti treaty would say that de Valera was the hero. Nowadays most people would say Collins is the hero as without him we would not have a Republic! Personally I think that De Valera was a coward!! Hope I helped a little!!

Answer 3

Yes Collins is considered a hero. Few people bring up that he was one of the negoitiators of partition or his role in the Civil war anymore. His murder and the controversy around it have added to his legend and he has become another mythologised martyr in the narriative of Ireland's birth as a nation.

Answer 4

He's been called 'Ireland's lost leader', which no doubt gets up the collective nose of the De Valera family, whose ancestor, contemporary and leader of Collins may have had Collins killed because he just hated the fact that Collins had done so much for the good of the country ...

Answer 5

This may upset the Irish but Michael Collins was supported by certain groups of people within the British establishment who wanted to get rid of the "Irish problem". Winston Churchill was one who secretly encouraged the Irish to rebel as he had no time for the Irish at all

Answer 6

Don't know but his cousin Tom Collins goes down a treat in the pub

Answer 7

Yes he most certainly is! I won't go into it, but he wasn't a terrorist. The english had just took the country over, and he was sick and tired of seeing his beautiful people being killed .He only ever went after the people who were killin irish people and children, who were raping irish women etc, he never went after innocents. Liam Neeson played him in the film about his life, ill shut up now, yes he still is a hero :)

Answer 8

He become the treasurer/financial officer of the Republican military throughout the time of the Irish Independence conflict. As such, he had finished administration of the components of the republican circulate, and all donations it gained from interior of eire and from supporters in usa and the Russian Soviet companies. on the time of his dying he become being pushed in his Leyland particular, made and designed with the help of Parry Thomas who died on Pendine Sands attempting to break the international velocity record in his very own motor vehicle. Michael Collins' motor vehicle fee two times as much as a Rolls-Royce. His spent the day of his dying have been shifting approximately from one place to a various at super velocity with out any obvious plan or purpose, even with the undeniable fact that that is been claimed he become vacationing banks. His motor vehicle become observed with the help of a young, containing his look after of a pair of dozen volunteers. the greater suitable factors of the dying are imprecise. It become hence claimed with the help of the republicans that Collins motor vehicle were ambushed, and that a gun conflict ensued. The meant attackers have been on no account pointed out even with the undeniable fact that, and there have been no bodies. An account given to a minimum of one Irish historian with the help of a guy claiming to have been between the look after of volunteers states that they witnessed not something, have been informed to return abode, then later, each become given a sum of money with training to circulate away the rustic and to not return. Michael Collins become reported to have been shot interior the top. some have faith he shot himself to stay away from an learn into his coping with of the strikes money.

Answer 9

Terrorist scum in any way shape or form are unfortunatly
made heros , we should remember all the innocent people
murdered for a cause , people should try to get on , but
that seems to be to much trouble .

Answer 10

Yes

Answer 11

He maybe a hero to some, but to my friend whose wife and 18 month baby were shot bt the IRA while they sat in a garage forecourt, anyone with anything to do with the IRA are cowards.