THE DEATH OF MICHAEL COLLINS SOUTH WESTERN COMMAND WAR NEWS (SGEALA CATA) ISSUE OF 26TH AUGUST 1922, FOUR DAYS AFTER THE 22ND AUGUST AMBUSH AT BEAL NA mBLATH. Volume 2 No. 12, 4pp, the front page given over completely to a tribute to Michael Collins and with banner headline ''Get On With The Work'', encouraging the Free State army to carry on the fight ''The heroic sacrifice of their great soldier-chieftain should inspire the Army of Ireland with a high courage and determination to complete the work which has fallen from his dead hands'', the newspaper also carrying reports of the lying in state of Michael Collins at City Hall, Dublin, the decision by Limerick Corporation to honour Collins, unanimously passing a resolution to the effect that ''The country has been robbed of one who we truly and deeply loved and to whom we looked with hope, confidence and courage to see us through to that goal, the realisation of which has been the work of centuries. The name of General Collins is stamped indelibly in the Irish mind, and centuries will not replace it'', along with reports of atrocities committed by the anti-treaty forces, including attacks on Red Cross ambulances, the murder of two Irish army Red Cross men whilst boating at Killarney, a fatal ambush near Athlone, etc. Folded and creased, small section of bottom corner of all four pages torn away and lacking, each missing piece approx 3'' x 2'' (7.5 x 5cm) (some loss of text). THE DEATH OF MICHAEL COLLINS SOUTH WESTERN COMMAND WAR NEWS (SGEALA CATA) ISSUE OF 26TH AUGUST 1922, FOUR DAYS AFTER THE 22ND AUGUST AMBUSH AT BEAL NA mBLATH. Volume 2 No. 12, 4pp, the front page given over completely to a tribute to Michael Collins and with banner headline ''Get On With The Work'', encouraging the Free State army to carry on the fight ''The heroic sacrifice of their great soldier-chieftain should inspire the Army of Ireland with a high courage and determination to complete the work which has fallen from his dead hands'', the newspaper also carrying reports of the lying in state of Michael Collins at City Hall, Dublin, the decision by Limerick Corporation to honour Collins, unanimously passing a resolution to the effect that ''The country has been robbed of one who we truly and deeply loved and to whom we looked with hope, confidence and courage to see us through to that goal, the realisation of which has been the work of centuries. The name of General Collins is stamped indelibly in the Irish mind, and centuries will not replace it'', along with reports of atrocities committed by the anti-treaty forces, including attacks on Red Cross ambulances, the murder of two Irish army Red Cross men whilst boating at Killarney, a fatal ambush near Athlone, etc. Folded and creased, small section of bottom corner of all four pages torn away and lacking, each missing piece approx 3'' x 2'' (7.5 x 5cm) (some loss of text).
THE DEATH OF MICHAEL COLLINS SOUTH WESTERN COMMAND WAR NEWS (SGEALA CATA) ISSUE OF 26TH AUGUST 1922, FOUR DAYS AFTER THE 22ND AUGUST AMBUSH AT BEAL NA mBLATH. Volume 2 No. 12, 4pp, the front page given over completely to a tribute to Michael Collins and with banner headline ''Get On With The Work'', encouraging the Free State army to carry on the fight ''The heroic sacrifice of their great soldier-chieftain should inspire the Army of Ireland with a high courage and determination to complete the work which has fallen from his dead hands'', the newspaper also carrying reports of the lying in state of Michael Collins at City Hall, Dublin, the decision by Limerick Corporation to honour Collins, unanimously passing a resolution to the effect that ''The country has been robbed of one who we truly and deeply loved and to whom we looked with hope, confidence and courage to see us through to that goal, the realisation of which has been the work of centuries. The name of General Collins is stamped indelibly in the Irish mind, and centuries will not replace it'', along with reports of atrocities committed by the anti-treaty forces, including attacks on Red Cross ambulances, the murder of two Irish army Red Cross men whilst boating at Killarney, a fatal ambush near Athlone, etc. Folded and creased, small section of bottom corner of all four pages torn away and lacking, each missing piece approx 3'' x 2'' (7.5 x 5cm) (some loss of text). THE DEATH OF MICHAEL COLLINS SOUTH WESTERN COMMAND WAR NEWS (SGEALA CATA) ISSUE OF 26TH AUGUST 1922, FOUR DAYS AFTER THE 22ND AUGUST AMBUSH AT BEAL NA mBLATH. Volume 2 No. 12, 4pp, the front page given over completely to a tribute to Michael Collins and with banner headline ''Get On With The Work'', encouraging the Free State army to carry on the fight ''The heroic sacrifice of their great soldier-chieftain should inspire the Army of Ireland with a high courage and determination to complete the work which has fallen from his dead hands'', the newspaper also carrying reports of the lying in state of Michael Collins at City Hall, Dublin, the decision by Limerick Corporation to honour Collins, unanimously passing a resolution to the effect that ''The country has been robbed of one who we truly and deeply loved and to whom we looked with hope, confidence and courage to see us through to that goal, the realisation of which has been the work of centuries. The name of General Collins is stamped indelibly in the Irish mind, and centuries will not replace it'', along with reports of atrocities committed by the anti-treaty forces, including attacks on Red Cross ambulances, the murder of two Irish army Red Cross men whilst boating at Killarney, a fatal ambush near Athlone, etc. Folded and creased, small section of bottom corner of all four pages torn away and lacking, each missing piece approx 3'' x 2'' (7.5 x 5cm) (some loss of text).
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