The Big Fellow: Michael Collins and the Irish Revolution - Softcover
In 1916, a young man named Michael Collins returned to his native Ireland, after ten years in voluntary exile in London, to join one of the most impassioned and complicated revolutions in history. Playfully nicknamed "The Big Fellow," Collins began to take a key role in the uprisings, eventually becoming a revered revolutionary leader.
Acclaimed writer Frank O'Connor, a man who himself fought in the Irish Civil War, traces Collin's life from the day he returned to Dublin to the day a young Irish soldier shot him dead on a country road.
The Big Fellow achieves a narrative both probing and poetic as it chronicles the life of a man so charismatic that he made people "aware of his presence even when he was not visible, through that uncomfortable magnetism of the very air, a tingling of the nerves."
Acclaimed writer Frank O'Connor, a man who himself fought in the Irish Civil War, traces Collin's life from the day he returned to Dublin to the day a young Irish soldier shot him dead on a country road.
The Big Fellow achieves a narrative both probing and poetic as it chronicles the life of a man so charismatic that he made people "aware of his presence even when he was not visible, through that uncomfortable magnetism of the very air, a tingling of the nerves."
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Frank O'Connor was born in Cork, Ireland, in 1903. His many collections of short stories gained him a worldwide reputation as one of the greatest masters of the form. He died in 1966.
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"Striking straight at the heart of a man whose life was a saga, O'Connor has written brilliantly of the West Cork County boy—Collins is here in episodes and anecdotes far more exciting than those of any thriller."—The New York Times Book Review, 1937
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- PublisherPicador
- Publication date1998
- ISBN 10 0312180500
- ISBN 13 9780312180508
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number1
- Number of pages224
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