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Chronology of Michael Collins
The
Path to Freedom by Michael Collins
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| 1890 |
October 16: born in townland of Woodfield, near Clonakilty, West
Cork |
| 1906: |
passed Post Office Boy clerkship examination and moved to London;
worked on Post Office Savings Bank and later other financial firms |
| 1909: |
sworn in as member of Irish Republican Brotherhood |
| 1916 |
January: returned to Ireland; joined Irish Volunteers |
| 1916 |
April: took part in Easter Rising; interned at Frongoch Prison
Camp, Wales |
| 1916 |
December: released from prison |
| 1917: |
Secretary of National Aid Association; set up underground intelligence
network |
| 1918: |
helped in De Valera's escape from Lincoln Prison, England; elected
M.P. for Cork |
| 1919 |
January: Dáil Éireann established; appointed Minister
for Finance; organized successful national loan; £10,000 was
price on his head, evaded captured by British army |
| 1920 |
guerilla war against British intensified |
| 1920 |
November 20: Collin's Secret Service "Squad" executed
19 British Secret Service agents ("Cairo Gang") |
| 1921 |
July: British Government sought truce |
| 1921 |
July 11: Anglo-Irish truce took effect |
| 1921 |
September 14: appointed by Dáil Éireann as a delegate
to the treaty negotiations in London |
| 1921 |
December 6: Anglo-Irish Treaty signed |
| 1922 January 7: |
Treaty ratified by Dáil Éireann; De Valera and
his supporters rejected decision |
| 1922 |
January 16: Pro-Treaty candidates won 92 out of total 128 in General
Election |
| 1922 June 28: |
Free State Army began shelling anti-Treaty positions in Dublin;
beginning of civil war |
| 1922 August 20: |
Collins as Commander-in-Chief of Free State Army left Dublin to
visit forces in south of country |
| 1922 August 22: |
in West Cork, convoy ambushed at Béal na Bláth,
Collins killed by ricochet bullet |
