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Michael Collins was an Irish revolutionary leader who served as Minister for Finance and Teachta Dála for Cork South in the First Dáil of 1919. He was also Director of Intelligence for the IRA and a member of the Irish delegation during the Anglo-Irish Treaty negotiations. Collins was born in 1890 in Cork and worked as a local journalist before moving to London at age 15, where he worked for the Gaelic Athletic Association. He was assassinated in 1922 at Béan na Bláth and was buried in Glasnevin, Dublin.






