Big interest in Big Fella with €200k letters

A COLLECTION of Michael Collins’s letters has fetched €202,000 at auction.

The letters went under the hammer at the James Adam-Mealy’s Independence auction in Dublin.

The 29 letters and several notebooks, which charted his life prior to the Rising, his subsequent incarceration and his growth into a rebel leader, had been estimated to make €70,000-€90,000. The hammer price of €202,000 far exceeded this expectation.