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Bezig met laden... In Great Haste: The Letters of Michael Collins and Kitty Kiernandoor Michael John Collins, Kitty Kiernan
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![]() Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. ![]() ![]() After Michael Collins was assassinated, Kitty Kiernan collected their letters to each other over the period of their courtship. Her sons kept these in trust after she passed away, eventually making them available for Leόn ό Broin to present in this exceptional historical archive. The period in Irish history of independence from the UK and the Irish civil war has all the makings of great story-telling. This collection of letters gives the student of that time period unique access into the personal ife of perhaps the key player in that story. ό Broin presents these letters with minimal interference - inserting his own brief historic notes to help the reader keep track of the letters' place in the story. This is not gripping reading, but a marvelous resource for the history buff. Os. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
Even seventy years after his death, Michael Collins remains a colossus of modern Irish history. During the five years before he died, Collins grew particularly close to Kitty Kienan of Grandard in County Longford. Harry Boland also expressed warm affection for Kitty in several letters, but it was the relationship between Michael and Kitty that developed and they planned to marry. They exchanged more than 300 letters which revealed not only their intimacy, but also the extraordinary pressure under which Collins lived during the tempestuous days of 1921 when the terms of the Anglo-Irish Treaty were being hammered out. A sequence of letters from London in May 1922 shows him near the breaking point. Kitty's letters in turn are full of concern about the life of strain Michael is forced to live and its looming physical danger. Both of them wish for a normal life in marriage. This new and splendidly designed edition contains, for the first time, facsimile reproductions of the letters and includes correspondence first discovered in 1994. It is being published to coincide with the release of a major motion picture on Michael Collins, wirtten and directed by Neil Jordan, starring Liam Neeson and Julia Roberts and based upon the relationship between Michael and Kitty. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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