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Re: A question of remembrance...
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Tue, 8 May 2001 18:01:55 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Lindsay Frederick Braun writes:
> Actually, that's a different Michael Collins. The one I'm
> thinking of was the one sent in 1922 by Eamon de Valera to
> negotiate the Good Friday Agreement that created the 16-county
> Irish Free State. De Valera knew that the agreement wouldn't
> satisfy the militants in his own movement, nor the British,
> so he made sure to have a younger, more idealistic person
> do it *for* him and thus be blamed when it proved to be less
> than others wanted it to be.
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> In the end, Collins paid for it by being gunned down in an
> ambush on his automobile not too long after the creation of
> self-governing Ireland. That was the price he, Sadat, and
> Rabin all paid for taking the bird in hand rather than
> continuing with invective and gaining nothing.
>
> best
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> LFB
So, you forgot about the Astronaut? You're just proving my point! ;-)
Bruce
(sheesh, I shoulda known it was a more esoteric answer...)
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| (...) Nope. Wrong Michael Collins. See below, it's not obtuse at all. (...) Actually, that's a different Michael Collins. The one I'm thinking of was the one sent in 1922 by Eamon de Valera to negotiate the Good Friday Agreement that created the (...) (23 years ago, 8-May-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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