MICHAEL COLLINS AND SINN FEIN A short manuscript text, one page, on lined paper from a notebook, headed 'Objects of Sinn Fein', dated 28 Nov. 1905 (when Collins was about 15, some six months...
MICHAEL COLLINS AND SINN FEIN A short manuscript text, one page, on lined paper from a notebook, headed 'Objects of Sinn Fein', dated 28 Nov. 1905 (when Collins was about 15, some six months before he left for London), giving a competent summary of Sinn Fein's proposals for Irish government and politics, ending 'Non enrolment in the British Army, and finally refuses to acknowledge the authority of England to make laws for Ireland.' With a second sheet, probably unrelated, concerning the futility of Irish parliamentary tactics, quoting Barry O'Brien's Life of Parnell. It is recorded that Collins began reading Arthur Griffith's United Irishman when he was about 12, long before he left Cork (see Coogan's biography). Provenance: Collins family, from his sister Hannie's collection, by descent.
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