When Asquith introduced his bill for Home Rule for Ireland in 1912, he sparked a decade of turbulence and violence for Ireland and her people. Michael Collins played a crucial role in rekindling Ireland`s aspirations for freedom. A leading figure in the nation`s bitter and bloody resistance to British Rule, he played a key part in reshaping Ireland`s history as we know it today. Ulick O`Connor includes valuable new information about the secret war against England and provides a fresh and highly dramatic account of Ireland`s fight for freedom. Using important material from the archives of General Richard Mulcahy, Collins`s chief of staff, as well as personal interviews with Mulcahy, Eamon de Valera, and many other leading figures Michael Collins and the Troubles is a vivid and often horrifying account of a crucial time, the consequences of which are still felt today.