Talk:Michael Collins (Irish leader)

Latest comment: 3 months ago by ParsleySt1 in topic Northern Ireland

Suggestion to Editors of This Page

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One of the paragraphs in the article references Michael Collins' election as a "Teachta Dála" in 1918, although An Dáil Éireann was formed in 1919. Would it not be more suitable to change the statement to "he was elected an MP, later serving as a TD after the forming of the Dáil Éireann on 21 January, 1919" This is just a suggestiom, I may be wrong which is why I will leave this to any editors and experts on the subject. 85.208.36.24 (talk) 21:55, 7 May 2023 (UTC)Reply

Good point, thank you. Terminology tweaked to clear this up Billsmith60 (talk) 20:15, 13 June 2023 (UTC)Reply

"Michael Collins (Irish leader" listed at Redirects for discussion

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"Death" or "Assassination"?

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A recent editor contends that "people killed during military engagements in a war aren't assassinated", I would dispute this, assassination is often a tactic of war and is described as such; see: Assassination of Reinhard Heydrich and Dzhokhar Dudayev, where the killings of military leaders in operations specifically intended to target them in the context of military conflict are described as assassinations. The circumstance of Heydrich's death in particular is rather similar; a high-ranking officer was shot in an ambush while he rode in a vehicle. BRMSF (talk) 15:04, 10 July 2024 (UTC)Reply

Collins was killed in action. (ParsleySt1 (talk) 08:31, 20 August 2024 (UTC))Reply

Northern Ireland

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Collins had already ended his support for an IRA offensive in Northern Ireland before his death, and stopped sending weapons there. ParsleySt1 (talk) 08:31, 20 August 2024 (UTC)Reply

Ok, please correct that with a reference Billsmith60 (talk) 12:03, 21 August 2024 (UTC)Reply
There was this newspaper article, but it seems not to be online now: https://www.independent.ie/opinion/analysis/why-the-big-fellow-has-little-to-teach-political-parties-in-modern-ireland-2307165.html (ParsleySt1 (talk) 18:54, 22 August 2024 (UTC))Reply