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Collins and the Road to Freedom | Cork News
This year’s Béal na Bláth oration will be delivered by acclaimed historian David McCullagh, who’ll spotlight Michael Collins — the architect of Ireland’s Free State constitution and a martyr of the Civil War — as Ireland reflects on its hard-won path to sovereignty. McCullagh will explore Collins’s belief that the Anglo-Irish Treaty was “the freedom to achieve freedom,” framing it as a strategic step toward full independence. Drawing from his new book, From Crown to Harp, which covers 27 years of Irish state-building, McCullagh will reveal how Collins’s vision still resonates — even if we…
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