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Brig Gen Denis Murphy, Lt Gen Sean McCann, Mr Alan Shatter and Dr Risteád Mulcahy view the General Michael Collins’s Desk and other memorabilia.
Collins. It was from here that
Michael Collins departed on his ill-fated tour of the south of the country, where he was killed in an ambush at Béal Na mBláth, County
Cork on August 22nd 1922. On
display is his desk, the flag that draped his coffin, his Colt 45 pistol and three pistols from his hit team, The Squad.
Also at the opening was Dr Risteád
Mulcahy, whose father General Richard Mulcahy succeeded Michael Collins as head of the Free State Army. The barracks became the
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