The Betrayal of Ireland's Washington

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Get CyberGhost VPN with 83% off + 4 months free using our link: https://www.cyberghostvpn.com/Spectacles Michael Collins helped liberate Ireland. They killed him for it. — Thanks to Brian @RealEngineering for lending some vocals. Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/spectaclesmedia Watch ad-free and uncensored: https://nebula.tv/videos/spectacles-why-ireland-betrayed-its-hero Hang out on our Discord: https://discord.gg/VWcpybH683 Check out our script: https://www.spectacles.news/why-ireland-betrayed-its-greatest-hero/ For citations, turn on CC. Footnotes below ↓ — Some further watch recommendations: Slaves & Scholars: https://www.rte.ie/player/movie/blindboy:_the_land_of_slaves_and_scholars_s1_e1/IP10004291-00-0000 Cold Case Collins: https://www.rte.ie/player/movie/cold-case-collins/311112744141 Norman Invasion: https://www.rte.ie/player/series/invasion-the-normans/IP10001381-00-0000?epguid=IP10001382-01-0001 Treaty Live: https://www.rte.ie/player/series/treaty-live/SI0000012579?epguid=IP000067234 — About us: Spectacles is a love letter to democracy, its values, its caretakers, and its ideas. Around the world, individual rights and representative government are facing unprecedented attacks from the forces of reaction and revisionism. But despite liberal democracy’s real shortcomings and today’s all-too-fashionable cynicism, we remain committed to its preservation and improvement. Join us as we explore just what liberal democracy is, how it comes about, and how it can best be maintained in a changing world. — SOURCES A. Tim Pat Coogan, Michael Collins: A Biography. Head of Zeus, 1990. B. Dáil Éireann Official Report: Debate on the Treaty, 19 December 1921. https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/Dáil/1921-12-19/2/ C. Anne Dolan, William Murphy. Michael Collins: The Man and the Revolution. Ireland: Collins Press, 2018. D. Dáil Éireann Official Report: Debate on the Treaty, 10 January 1922. https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/Dáil/1922-01-10/2/ E. P.S. O’Hegarty, The Victory of Sinn Féin (Dublin, 1998; 1st ed. 1924) F. Hayden Talbot, Michael Collins’ Own Story (Dublin, 2012; 1st ed. 1923) G. Michael Collins, The Path to Freedom. https://cartlann.org/dicilimt/2021/07/The-Path-to-Freedom-1.pdf H. Collins to Kevin O’Brien, 6 October 1916. I. Rex Taylor, Michael Collins (London, 1964; 1st ed. 1958). J. Ronan Fanning, Fatal Path: British Government and Irish Revolution, 1910-1922, United Kingdom: Faber & Faber, 2013. K. Proclamation of the Irish Republic, Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proclamation_of_the_Irish_Republic L. Memorandum by Collins on meeting with Lloyd George, 5 December 1921, NAI, DE2/304/1. www.difp.ie/docs/1921/Anglo-Irish-Treaty/212.htm M. Dáil Éireann Official Report: Debate on the Treaty, 7 January 1922. https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/Dáil/1922-01-07/2/ N. Declaration of Irish Independence, 21 January, 1919. https://www.amrevmuseum.org/virtualexhibits/cost-of-revolution/pages/declaration-of-irish-independence — 00:00 INTRO 03:40 I: IRISH SOUL 09:12 II: BUNGLED TERRIBLY 12:17 III: THE COLLINS METHOD 17:14 IV: PATH TO FREEDOM 22:04 V: PRAGMATISM—IDEALISM — Select imagery/video supplied by Getty Images