Reissued with an introduction by Neil Jordan, The Big Fella is the 1937 biography of the famed Irish leader Michael Collins by acclaimed author Frank O’ Connor. It is an uncompromising but humane stury of Collins, whose stature and genius O’ Connor recognised. A Masterly, evocative portrait of one of Ireland’s most charismatic figures, The Big Fella covers the period of Collins life from the Easter Rising in 1916 to his death in 1922 during the Irish Civil War.

The author, having served with the anti-treaty IRA during the Irish Civil War, wrote The Big Fellow as a form of reparation over the guilt he felt with regards to taking up arms againsthis fellow Irishmen and Collins’ untimely death.

Soft Cover
ISBN: 9781781175583