Michael Collins' mislaid umbrella goes on display in West Cork museum

War of Independence leader left the brolly in a Dublin pub that he used for clandestine meetings. More than a century on, the artifact is now on display in Collins' ancestral homeland

John Merivale, a relation by marriage of the family that ran Devlin's pub on Parnell St in Dublin, presenting Michael Collins House Museum manager Jamie Murphy with the umbrella that Michael Collins left behind in Devlin's over a century ago.  Picture: Dermot Sullivan 

The brolly the ‘Big Fella’ forgot over a century ago has been returned to his ancestral West Cork for public display.

Michael Collins left his silk mechanical umbrella behind following one of his visits to Devlin’s pub on Parnell St in Dublin — a secret meeting point and safe house for Collins and his associates in the late 1910s and early 1920s.