The Big Fellow

Michael Collins and the Irish Revolution

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The Big Fellow

Michael Collins and the Irish Revolution

1st Picador USA ed.
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In 1916, a young man named Michael Collins returned to his native Ireland, after ten years in voluntary exile in London, to join one of the most impassioned and complicated revolutions in history. Playfully nicknamed "The Big Fellow," Collins began to take a key role in the uprisings, eventually becoming a revered revolutionary leader.

Acclaimed writer Frank O'Connor, a man who himself fought in the Irish Civil War, traces Collin's life from the day he returned to Dublin to the day a young Irish soldier shot him dead on a country road.

The Big Fellow achieves a narrative both probing and poetic as it chronicles the life of a man so charismatic that he made people "aware of his presence even when he was not visible, through that uncomfortable magnetism of the very air, a tingling of the nerves."

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Picador USA
Language
English
Pages
222

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Cover of: The Big Fellow
The Big Fellow: Michael Collins and the Irish Revolution
1998, Picador USA
in English - 1st Picador USA ed.
Cover of: The big fellow
The big fellow
1991, Poolbeg
in English - New ed.
Cover of: Big Fellow
Big Fellow: Michael Collins and the Irish Revolution
January 1979, Dufour Editions
Paperback in English - New Ed edition
Cover of: The Big Fellow
The Big Fellow
1979, Poolbeg
in English - Rev. ed.
Cover of: Big Fellow
Big Fellow
June 1979, Irish Book Center
Paperback in English
Cover of: The Big Fellow
The Big Fellow: Michael Collins and the Irish Revolution
1969, Corgi
in English - [Revised ed.]
Cover of: The Big Fellow
The Big Fellow: Michael Collins and the Irish Revolution.
1966, Clonmore & Reynolds
in English - Revised ed.
Cover of: The Big Fellow
The Big Fellow: Michael Collins and theIrish Revolution
1965, Clonmore & Reynolds, Burns & Oates, (distributed by) Templegate, Springfield, Ill
in English - Revised ed.
Cover of: The big fellow
The big fellow: Michael Collins and the Irish Revolution
1965, Clonmore & Reynolds
in English - Revised ed.
Cover of: The big fellow
The big fellow: a life of Michael Collins
1937, T. Nelson & sons, limited
in English

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Edition Notes

Previously published: London : Corgi, 1969.
Includes index.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
941.5082/2
Library of Congress
DA965.C6 O244 1998

The Physical Object

Pagination
222 p. ;
Number of pages
222

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL686451M
Internet Archive
bigfellow00ocon
ISBN 10
0312180500
LCCN
97033373
OCLC/WorldCat
37437559
Library Thing
1354737
Goodreads
612455

First Sentence

"ONE cold bright morning in the spring of the year of fate, 1916, a young man in a peaked cap and grey suit stood on the deck of a boat returning to Ireland."

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