Michael Collins - Part 2

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Michael Collins is now one of the most powerful men in Ireland. But events that will tear Ireland apart and lead to his brutal assassination in Cork are already set in train. In 1921 he is sent by De Valera to London to negotiate with the British on what will become the Anglo-Irish Treaty. With his striking good looks and his fierce reputation, London is gripped by "Collins mania". But on December 6th 1921, when Collins signs the Treaty, he is said to have remarked: “I'm signing my actual death…