Collins’s British civil service exams unearthed

EXAMINATION papers completed for the British Civil Service by War of Independence hero Michael Collins have been discovered in London.

The series of papers, which Collins completed in 1906 when he was just 15, have been found in the British National Archive in Kew by historian Dr Brian Murphy.

Considering that the west Cork man became a nemesis of the British, the papers show Collins had some surprising views about their empire.