Michael Collins may still be named Britain’s greatest foe - UK lecturer brings the facts

Yes. Michael Collins stands Meteorically @ the Fore. Forever N our hearts & memory

I would have thought and probably my friends in Uladh would agree that the great Shane O Neill of the UNeill clann of Ulster (that is the nine counties of Ulster na Eireann) would have been a greater foe to the old brits than Michael Collins.They absolutely hated Shane O Neill for his stance against their illegal occupation of Ireland and branded him as a brutal savage.Of course any one who stood up to and fought the british terrorist invaders were all branded as brutal savages. Beannach de Michael Collins and Shane O Neill the Ulster gael salutes your heroic stand.

Stevenstar.......I would agree, this forum certainly doesn't resemble the Irish press nor does it represent the kinship of the Irish diaspora. Many who post on here may be only remotely connected to modern day Ireland, yet they tend to put their spin on the cultural and political issues of the day, without walking a mile in your shoes.

@@89west | Apr 13, 2012, 10:55 PM EDT Stevenstar.......Try as I may I cannot find any anti British sentiments expressed by any of the 15 other folks who responded to this story. What are you rabbling about??>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>IM NOT SPECIFICALLY POINTING TO THIS ARTICLE IM TALKING ABOUT THIS WHOLE NEWSPAPER AS IT STANDS.. THIS IS NOT AN IRISH NEWSPAPER.. NOR DOES IT EVEN RESEMBLE ANYTHING LIKE THE IRISH MEDIA ITS AN AMERICAN NEWSPAPER FOR AMERICANS ... simple as that

Stevenstar.......Try as I may I cannot find any anti British sentiments expressed by any of the 15 other folks who responded to this story. What are you rabbling about??

aloistmartin, is your real name Steven Forward?, I know you

Stevenstar: For a Real Amusing Time: Put on your Fancy " Holy Joe-sephine Coat ", and try to make your way from the Protestant,to the Catholic side of Town ? But your Right you know. Belfast, Homburg, Boston, Seatlle; There`s No Difference ~

IM IRISH LIVE IN IRELAND BORN IN IRELAND BELIEVE ME UNLIKE ALOT OF AMERICANS WHO TRY TO BE IRISH , THE MAJORITY OF IRISH PEOPLE HAVE NO PROBLEM WITH THE ENGLISH OR THE BRITISH PEOPLE .. MY GRANDMOTHER WAS ONE OF THE BIGGERST ROYALISTS I KNOW ...EVERY TIME I MEET AN IRISH AMERICAN THEY ARE SO ANTI BRITISH IT AMUSES ME ... BUT PLEASE DONT TRY AND PUT YOUR VIEWS OF BRITISH PEOPLE ON US...AS AN IRISHMAN MYSELF I FEEL WE HAVE ALOT MORE IN COMMON WITH BRITISH PEOPLE THEN WE EVER DID WITH AMERICANS...

AloisTMartin who has an ex-Pope on your work cubicle - LOL. You really are a Holy Joe-sephine!

The Big Fellow - arguably Ireland's 2nd great uncrowned King (after C.S. Parnell). what has run the country since but the 'Soldiers of Infamy, Cronyism, Roguery, Charlatanry. No Irish figure of authority is worthy of Collins' mantle.

Lest you forget. Hitler drove their army off the continent, blitz their cities and all but destroyed their maritime industry and nearly left them bankrupt.

The British proper (i.e. the English) are a very fair-minded people. Only they could come up with an Emmy or Oscar award for the warrior who best put their imperial noses out of joint, and burst their stiff upper lip. Hard to beat Big Mick though, having been in on Pearse's 1916 GPO gig in Dublin - 'High Noon on Sackville Street'! Still, nothing sticks in the craw of hard-boiled English-Brenglish imperialists than a Croppy who won't lie down. Or a Paddy who doesn't know his colonial place. If they do give it to him, though, it will be a sign of marked diplomatic maturity between Ireland and the auld enemy.

Collins fought the forces of G.B. in an effort to win full independence for he whole Irish nation. (Upholding Partition was never his aim). He and the I.R.A. never presented a serious threat to the British nation. But he taight the British a very lesson which they put to use as they prepared for an invasion by Germany in W.W.11. Few seem to know that their gov't had onganized civilians in S/E England to resist Germany's occupation forces in they should land there. The Brits were prepared to use Collins-type tactics to delay the enemmy's advance.

I'm Scanning that Photo of Collins and Posting It next the Ones of R.F.K. and Pope John Paul II on my Work Cubical !

jhonnyb: " Hundreds of republicans and socialists gathered in Belfast’s Milltown cemetery on Monday [April 9] to mark the 96th anniversary of the 1916 Easter Rising. " Yea ...