Correspondence connected to Michael Collins to be auctioned at the National Concert Hall in Dublin.
The collection includes letters and correspondence between Michael Collins and the two women who figured in his life just before he was killed.
The collection includes three hundred letters and telegrams covering the period 1919 to 1922.
The letters are all handwritten and most include stamp addressed envelopes. Letters from Lady Hazel Lavery who was alleged to be having an affair with Michael Collins during the Anglo-Irish Treaty talks in London.
Auctioneer John De Vere White believes the collection is vitally important to Irish heritage and is hopeful that an Irish institution will buy the collection so that the letters can remain in Ireland.
One of the most touching letters in the collection is that written by Kitty Kiernan to Michael Collins shortly before he was shot dead on 22 August 1922.
If you were killed, I'd be dying with you.
An RTÉ News report broadcast on 12 June 1995. The reporter is Colm Connolly.
