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Subject: [Leica] OT: Michael Collins, was Gun Photos
From: imra at iol.ie (Douglas Barry)
Date: Tue Dec 2 16:55:57 2008
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> citation to run down.  The Wikipedia
Just came home from Bray Camera Club's weekly meeting and see that there's a 
Collins spat in full swing!
Forget about Wikipedia for a start for any real depth and accuracy. Collins 
was a regular visitor to my grandmother and grandaunt's house during the 
1916 Rising. Allegedly, he hung from a windowsill during one particular raid 
on it, but, that said, the story may well be apocryphal. However, as it was 
told to me by my grandmother - her sister (my grandaunt) was married to 
Captain Sean Connolly the man who led the 1916 raid on Dublin Castle, took 
over the adjoining City Hall, and was the first of the Irish Volunteers 
killed in the Rising - for that reason I expect it was true. Collins at the 
time was second in command of the Volunteers that took over the General Post 
Office and both men knew each other well.

Collins did pass through most counties in Ireland as he was a legendary 
recruiter, organiser, and man manager, so many of the countries on Ireland 
could probably have some claim on him. Collins was initially a friend of 
Erskine Childers the novelist and a strong advocate of Irish nationalism - 
father to the Erskine Childers who became president of Ireland in the 70s - 
but the relationship broke down after the treaty. Childers did live in 
Glendalough, Co. Wicklow one of the most beautiful parts of Ireland so the 
claim that he had a special relationship with the county cannot be 
discounted.

Douglas
_________
Douglas Barry
Bray, Co. Wicklow
Republic of Ireland

Collins and Leica??

However, it is unlikely that Collins used a Leica but it is not 
inconceivable that an early Oscar Barnack prototype could have found its way 
into the shipment of guns for the Volunteers brought by Childers on his 
yacht Asgard in 1914......

I can vouch for everythinbg above my name but the Leica connection....... 
Well <grin>


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