For more than 30 years, Denis Lenihan from Sherrard Street in Dublin's north inner city ... the Valentine's cards which arrives on Michael Collins' grave every year The lure of Collins reaches ...

Michael Collins, aka 'The Big Fella,' still receives Valentines at his grave in Glasnevin Cemetery in Dublin a century after his death. Michael Collins is still feeling the love of the Irish ...

If you go down to Shane's grave, he always seems to have ... scattered among the 1.5 million buried in Dublin’s Northside. They include Michael Collins, Maud Gonne, Countess Markievicz, Eamon ...

Tricolour flowers laid by Veronique on Michael Collins’s grave at Glasnevin ... “When I’m in Dublin, I place flowers when I visit the grave at Glasnevin. On specific occasions, like his ...

Visitors still leave tributes at his gravesite every day in Glasnevin Cemetery in Dublin including ... a lock of Michael Collins' hair selling at auction for €21,000 "That grave wasn't erected ...

More info One of Michael Collins's hitmen has become a voice from the grave in a new animated film ... sets of the GPO and St Stephen's Green in Dublin to depict Vinny Byrne's role alongside ...

Great grandniece, Ballykissangel actress Dervla Kirwan says she is astonished that Collins gets Valentine’s cards but the Dublin woman ... attention as Michael Collins’ grave does.” ...

Mourners beside the grave of Michael Collins immediately after his burial at Glasnevin Cemetery, Dublin on August 28, 1922. Photo: Bettmann Archive The Irish Independent of August 29, 1922 ...

Excerpted with permission from The Twelve Apostles: Michael Collins ... unit controlled by Collins which oper­ated in Ireland during the final era of British rule from Dublin Castle.

under the orders of Michael Collins, soldiers of the Irish Republican Army essentially decapitated the “Cairo Gang,” an elite group of British intelligence agents sent to Dublin to do the same ...

“We bend today over the grave of a young man not more ... “He is supposed to have said: ‘Let the Dublin Brigade bury me’. Michael Collins knows that we will never bury him.