Michael Collins was born in Clonaklit, Cork, to Michael Collins Senior and Marianne O'Brien. Collins Senior and Marianne had an age difference of almost 40 years: Michael was sixty and Marianne only twenty-three. Michael was the youngest of eight children (only three of whom were Marianne) and because his father was so old at birth he was left with a sense of respect for elders that would stay with him throughout his life. Before he died, Collins Sr. he is said to have said on his deathbed: "One day [Michael] will be a great man and will do a great job for Ireland. Michael Collins would be fatherless before he was seven, leaving him open to the influence of many." people around him, many of whom were Republicans, and would guide him on his path to revolution and a strong sense of nationalism Michael Collins, a great visionary of his time, would do in a short period of time what countless others had failed to do so for the past 700 years: Michael Collins would gain Irish independence but would also be killed once it was achieved (Collins, Coogan) Joining the Irish Rebellion Brotherhood (IRB) at a young age, he volunteered for the Rising. of 1916 e. would witness firsthand the Irish failure. The revolt was quelled within a week, but even though it failed it managed to awaken the Irish people and increase the animosity that already existed between the two islands. Imprisoned for a few months but without rest, Michael immediately recovered and was given a seat in Sinn Fein (a large Irish political group that would later form its own government) together with Eamon de Valera. Eagerly preparing for his next move, Michael created a network of informants, using what he had learned from his past mistakes, if... middle of paper... The circumstances surrounding his death are extremely difficult as everyone present they presented different stories. All that is known is that while driving through Beal na Blath, Michael and his group were ambushed and he was killed. The fighting would continue for a few more months, but Ireland and the world had already lost one of the most passionate and compassionate people of the 1920s. Michael was a visionary who saw his people suffer and rose to the challenge by defeating the English for the first time in Irish history. He died less than a month before turning 32, he was neither the first nor the last of his relatives to give their lives for the Irish, but he will forever have a chapter in his story, a chapter from which we can learn and from we can take inspiration. find hope in. “All is changed, completely changed: a terrible beauty is born” – “Easter 1916” William Butler Yeats