Dermot McEvoy

Dermot McEvoy was born in Dublin in 1950. For 25 years he was an editor/writer for Publishers Weekly magazine.

He is the author of five books including the novels "The 13th Apostle: A Novel of Michael Collins and the Irish Uprising," "Terrible Angel: A Novel of Michael Collins in New York," "Our Lady of Greenwich Village," and two nonfiction works: "Irish Miscellany" and "The Little Book of Irish Wisdom."

He lives in Jersey City, NJ.

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Michael Collins, Oscar Wilde, and Eugene O’Neill all celebrate their birthdays today

Three of Ireland’s greats celebrate their birthdays on October 16.

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9/11 and how a poster of a beautiful missing Irish woman stunned me

"I was overcome with grief because I would never get to meet the Irish girl with red hair."

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The most amazing thing Michael Collins ever said

Michael Collins feared Irish informers more than the British Secret Service.

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Did a search for buried gold lead Michael Collins to his death?

The book "Cork’s Revolutionary Dead" speculates why Michael Collins was visiting Cork on the day he was killed.

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Where did Michael Collins hide his gun while riding on Dublin’s trams?

Bet you can’t guess.

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The many faces of Michael Collins

Where are The Big Fellas mugshots? Dermot McEvoy believes they don’t exist because they were never taken; Collins' survival depended on his anonymity.

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Michael Collins and the Bloody Sunday massacre

Author Dermot McEvoy takes a look at the events leading up to Michael Collins' Bloody Sunday, one of the seminal events in Irish revolutionary history.

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