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The chairman of the Irish provisional government, army chief and Minister for Finance was just 31-years-old at the time.
Today marks the 100th anniversary of the assassination, of one of Ireland's most well-known revolutionary figures
Michael Collins was shot in an ambush on this day in 1922, in Béal na Bláth County Cork.
The chairman of the Irish provisional government, army chief and Minister for Finance was just 31-years-old at the time.
Midlands historian Jason McKevitt says the Cork man was very impressed with the troops at Columb Barracks in Mullingar: