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Events on Tuesday 22 August 1922 1
1890 – 1922Michael Collins (1890-1922)Died 22 August 1922, aged 31Michael Collins, a leading figure in the Irish independence movement and negotiator of the Anglo-Irish Treaty, was shot dead in an ambush at Beal na Bla, County Cork, during the Irish Civil War. He had been commander-in-chief of the Free State's National Army. His death made him one of the most enduring martyr figures of modern Irish history.