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THE REVOLUTION PAPERS - PART 48

1922
MICHAEL COLLINS ASSASSINATED
With the death of Arthur Griffith just days earlier,
the Free State has lost its two leading figures


Newspapers: 
  • Cork Examiner,24 August 1922
  • Limerick War News, 14 August 1922
  • Free State, 29 August 1922

Contemporary document: 
Lying in state


Contents and articles:
Revolution Chronicle
'Two leaders laid to rest': the deaths of Arthur Griffith and Michael Collins - what the papers say
'After Collins': W.T. Cosgrave, the new Chairman of the Provisional Government, had big shoes to fill
'The ownership of Ireland': the vexatious question of land ownership had troubled the country for decades


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