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Nov 14, 2016 · The Collins brothers were from a large, working-class Catholic family who lived in the heart of Waterford city when World War One broke out in 1914. By Eimear Flanagan. BBC News NI.
Nov 18, 2016 · 16-year-old Stephen Collins was the youngest of the brothers to enlist, and was killed only two months into the war in Flanders, sometime in October 1914. In 1915, Stephen’s 24-year-old brother Michael was also killed in Flanders while fighting for the Royal Irish Regiment – the same regiment for which Stephen had laid down his own life.
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Aug 2, 2014 · Uncovering the Collins brothers’ story has been a long process for William’s son, my granduncle Jimmy. While the family always knew of the brothers’ deaths, details were scant and where they ...
The brothers received a mixed welcome after the war; they were unpopular for supporting the British and John was beaten badly. With the advent of the Anglo-Irish War it is understood that the family name drew unwanted attention from British forces and to prevent continued harassment at the family home Michael Collins disappeared,never to return.
In Waterford some 4,800 people volunteered to join the army and fight the Kaiser of those 1,100 were killed. One tragic story is of the Collins Brothers from Philip Street in Waterford City. Six brothers joined up and four of them were killed. Waterford’s Band of Brothers. Stephen Collins killed on the 19th October 1914, Michael Collins on ...
Jan 31, 2024 · All but one of Michael Collins’s bachelor uncles on the Collins side, were dead before his birth. The surviving brother was the original manager of the Woodfield holding, Patrick (Paddy). One of Michael Collins’s sisters later claimed that upon seeing baby Michael Collins her uncle declared; ‘Be careful of this child for he will be a great and mighty man when we are all forgotten.’
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Jun 8, 2019 · One of the most iconic figures that emerged out of the Easter Rising was Michael Collins. Born in 1890, he was the third son in a family of eight children. Some sources would suggest that the Collins family were part of a very ancient clan who were widely spread over County Cork. Collins' father did not marry until he was 60 years of age, which ...
