The diaries are on display at the Michael Collins House Museum, in Clonakilty, Co Cork until September. Image: John Allen The diaries are on display at the Michael Collins House Museum, in Clonakilty, Co Cork until September. Image: John Allen DIARIES KEPT BY Michael Collins during the last four years of his life will be made available to the public for the first time next month.
They represent the first fresh primary source material on the politician in many decades. Previously just two of the diaries were on display and only two pages were visible. She described Collins as being “quite economical with what he says in the diaries, because he’s always on the run”.“The diaries would make little mention of some of the momentous events that we would expect to see,” McBride told RTÉ’s Morning Ireland today.
“People would be surprised in that they’re not going to read Michael Collins’ innermost thoughts or contemplations,” McBride explained. The centenary ceremony will be marked by a historic joint address by the Fianna Fáil leader and Taoiseach Micheál Martin and Fine Gael leader Tánaiste Leo Varadkar.
Sinn Fein man Michael Collins who dies years before FG ever existed.