'The freedom to achieve freedom' - a book to help children discover the life of the remarkable Irish political hero Michael Collins!

Discover the soldier and peacemaker that was Michael Collins! Michael Collins was born in County Cork and was the youngest of eight children. He moved to London as a teenager but returned to Ireland to fight in the Easter Rising of 1916. By 1919 he was Minister for Finance in the First Dail.

After the Irish War of Independence, Michael went back to London to negotiate peace. The resulting Anglo-Irish Treaty established the Irish Free State but depended on an oath of allegiance to the Crown. And so the Irish Civil War began ...

Michael Collins is the sixth book in Gill's Little Library series. Other books in the series are Granuaile, Brian Boru, Mary Robinson, Tom Crean and Constance Markievicz. When your collection is complete you'll have a Little Library - and big knowledge!

About the Author

Kathi 'Fatti' Burke is an Irish illustrator. She lives in Dublin. John Burke is Fatti's dad. He is a retired primary school teacher and principal. He lives in Waterford. Their first book, Irelandopedia, won The Ryan Tubridy Show Listeners' Choice Award at the Irish Book Awards 2015, the Eilis Dillon Award for first children's book and the Judges' Special Award at the CBI Book of the Year Awards 2016.

Book Information
ISBN 9780717194100
Author John Burke
Format Hardback
Page Count 32
Imprint Gill Books
Publisher Gill
Weight(grams) 360g
Dimensions(mm) 254mm * 195mm * 12mm