Thanks, but I have never been a subject. Thanks to the Nationality Act of 1948. As for Collins, there are Irish Nationalist heroes I can admire: Sorley Boy McDonnell, Wolfe Tone. Men who fought fairly and admirably. Not terrorists like Collins, who murdered civilians, and whose IRA colleagues committed a forgotten but brutal ethnic cleansing of Protestants in the early 1920’s along the border. Inc members of my own maternal family.
I have had two members of my (maternal) family murdered in 1921 and 1971 by the IRA. You’ll understand I am not fond of them. Or any of the terror groups who made a beautiful country like NI a murderous mess for decades.
“...I have had two members of my (maternal) family murdered in 1921 and 1971 by the IRA...”
My condolences.