Massive demand for newly issued Michael Collins coins in Ireland

CurtisJ - Suggest you brush up on WW1 chronology...it was the interlinking guarantees by both the Central Powers AND Allies that led to war...Brits went reluctantly...what did they have to gain? In the end it was fight or see Germany take over Europe...which very nearly happened then, and has more or less happened now!!

True, Seanmor. Collins signed the Treaty under the threat of unrestrained modern warfare against non-combatants by the terror state of britain (the same things they falsely accused Germany of as a pretense for WWI).

IrelandNorth: I agree that amnesia is highly visible among revisionist historians. None of the leaders of the so-called War of Independence accepted that Partition (establised in June, 1920 by Westminister)would be permanent, least of all Michael Collins. He reluctantly signed the Treaty, which he saw as a step toward full independence for the whole Irish nation. No amount of Collins commermorative coins can inform the Irish peope of the Big Fella's desire for Reunification and complete sovereignty over all of Ireland's territory.

People sacrificed for a 32 county nation not this 26 county state, a sacrifice which has yet to be realised! Collins' Minsterial successor Mr Noonan's apparently unconscious revisionism is unsettling. And calling down history to rubber stamp a unsovereign budget more disturbing indeed. Issue should have been limited to 3,200. Or better still, to historically symbolic numerals such as 1,916/1,867/1,857/1,803/1,798/1,641, etc. Alas, historically amnesia prevails amongst a revisionist Irish political caste, after years of self-interest and collective neglect.

Cool!

brilliant/

Think I'll wait 10 years for the 100 year anniversary coin to be issued