Irish nationalist and politician. Born Woodfield, County Cork. He moved to London in 1906 with his sister, spending over nine years there. An activist in the Sinn Féin movement, he was imprisoned in 1916 for his part in the Easter rebellion. He was partly responsible for negotiating the treaty that created the Irish Free State in 1922. When his colleague Éamon de Valera insisted on a fully-independent republic, civil war broke out between the two factions. Collins became head of the provisional Free State Government, but only ten days later, was shot dead in a skirmish at Béal na mBláth in West County Cork.
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Michael Collins
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Michael Collins
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Mujibur Rahman
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Ugo Foscolo
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Wandsworth Council EMAS
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Ali Mohammed Abbas
Barrister and one of the founders of Pakistan. Ali Mohammed Abbas was born on 1 January 1922 in West Bengal, India (now Pakistan) and according to the Open University website he came to London tow...
Person, Law, Nationalism, Politics & Administration, India, Pakistan
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India House
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Deep Lee
N1, King's Cross
Killed on the first day of the new King's Cross campus of Central St Martin's College. We photographed the flowers that were placed the ...
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Chalk Farm bus garage - WW1 (at Pemberton Gardens)
N19, Pemberton Gardens
The names are those of men who worked at the Chalk Farm bus garage, died in WW1 and whose names were listed on a white plaque that was er...
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R.A. Robinson
Justice of the Peace and Chairman of the Improvements Committee for the Rotherhithe Tunnel in 1908.
2 memorials
Shirley Pace
Sculptor. Shirley Sylvia Pace was born and brought up in Worthing. With an early interest in ponies she trained in art but also worked in music (singing) and drama. She married and had children; re...
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