Michael Collins letters to Kitty Kiernan at Sotheby’s in New York

Des O’Sullivan on an important and historic sale of primary sources for the Irish revolutionary period. 

IN one of his letters to to his fiancé Kitty Kiernan Kitty Kiernan, Michael Collins wrote with considerable prescience:

“Ireland will have cause to remember her present-day extremists. this was written on June 1, 1922, from London during the Treaty negotiations.