Michael Collins: A Fitting Farewell by Justin Nelson (Signed by the Author) (CP109)

Published 2008: First Edition / Softcover / Excellent Condition / Illustrated throughout / Signed by the Author

Original pictorial stiff card covers. 110 as new very clean and bright pages. Slight shelf wear on covers. A very scarce original first edition and signed by the author on the title page. (CP109)

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"Justin Nelson's publication testifies to the extraordinary quality of press photography almost a century ago. This publication provides a dramatic record of historic events between 1916 and 1922, bringing home to a new generation the tragic character of this part of our history. Here we can see Harry Boland, killed by the Free State Army during the Civil War, sharing a joke with Michael Collins, when they had just rescued Eamon de Valera from Lincoln Gaol; and Rory O'Connor, executed by the Provisional Government in which Kevin O'Higgins was Minister for Home Affairs, acting as best man at the O'Higgins wedding a year earlier - with Eamon de Valera present in both photographs. Most moving are the photographs of Collins's funeral - including one in which my father, Desmond FitzGerald, is in the front row of the cortege with, for reasons I have never understood, William T. Cosgrave, Collins's successor as President of the Executive Council, in the second row. The text is unashamedly partisan, for Justin Nelson is a huge admirer of Michael Collins - but the photographs speak for themselves." (Foreword by Dr Garret Fitzgerald) -- From the back "Michael Collins was assassinated at Beal na mBlath near Crookstown in West Cork on August 22nd, 1922. 'Falling to the shot of another Irishman - a damned fool, but all the same an Irishman who thought he was fighting for Ireland.' (George Bernard Shaw) -- 'Mr de Valera on a visit to that part of West Cork stayed the night prior to the ambush in Crookstown. I believe, and truth should always prevail, that he had no knowledge of that ambush'. (Michael Collins, nephew of General Collins)".

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