On Michael Collins, heroic heartthrob and celebrity guerrilla... For Sunday Miscellany on RTÉ Radio 1, listen to London and the Craze for Collins by Lourdes Mackey above.
One hundred years on from his assassination, Michael Collins has been firmly cast in the popular mind as Ireland's tragic, heroic heartthrob. Collins, according to Frank O Connor, had 'one of those queer lightening minds which never halt before a word or decision while De Valera fidgeted and brooded over every sentence like a hen on an egg.’
Hardly surprising, then, that Collins, not Eamon de Valera, was the one to receive the complete Hollywood blockbuster treatment...
Listen to more from Sunday Miscellany here.
