Michael Collins museum to open on Easter Saturday

A museum dedicated to the memory of Michael Collins and other revolutionary icons from West Cork will open in Clonakilty on Easter Saturday, March 26.

The county council has completed the refurbishment of a Georgian-built house in the town’s Emmet Square, where Collins lived as a young man. The museum will commemorate his life and those of Tadgh Astna O’Donovan and Jeremiah O’Donovan Rossa.

While Collins will take centre stage, there will also be a section dedicated to the famed pikeman Tadgh Astna O’Donovan, who led the bloodied Battle of Shannonvale, the only other major skirmish against the British outside of Vinegar Hill, Co Wexford, in 1798.