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Ireland's Michael Collins and Emon De Valera


There are many conditions under which Ireland was divided into two
nations. Two main men were the main leaders of this split, Emon de Valera and
Michael Collins. Sinn Fein also played a large role. Their differing visions
for an Ireland free of British rule was the root motivation for the split.
Born in New York City in 1882, Emon de Valera was described as a 'tall,
spectacled, schoolmasterly, of Jewish cast' as Tim Healy said. Edward Norman,
the author of A History of Modern Ireland, added that de Valera was an 'austere
theoretician' (Norman, 265). Michael Collins was born in 1890 at Clonakilty, Co.
Cork. Edward Norman said his personality was to be to the contrary of de
Valera's; he said Collins was not an intellectual and was a man of violent
impulses. He took that statement further when he said the Collins would go as
far to tumble his colleagues on the floor and bite their ears in playful
attention. Now that de Valera's......

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