Collins Bibliography

The following is a list I have compiled over more than two decades of books and other literature whose subject is one of my heroes, Irish politician Michael Collins (1890-1922). It is the most extensive such list on the Internet by far and will hopefully be of use to someone. If you have information to add to or correct this list, please send me a note at joseph.anderson@loganutah.org. We own the titles marked with ☩.


Biographical and other Nonfiction Books:
  • Collins, Michael. The Path to Freedom (1922) (Reprint 1996, 2011) (available online here) ☩ 
  • Talbot, Hayden. Michael Collins’ Own Story (1922) (available online here) ☩ 
  • La situation en Irlande: la mort de Griffith et de Collins (1922) 
  • Béaslaí, Piaras. Michael Collins and the Making of a New Ireland (2 vols.) (1926) (Kraus Reprint 1983, Edmund Burke Reprint 2008) 
  • O’Connor, Bat. With Michael Collins in the Fight for Irish Independence (1929) (Aubane Historical Society Reprint 2004) ☩ 
  • Ryan, Desmond. Michael Collins and the Invisible Army (1932) 
  • Béaslaí, Piaras. Michael Collins: Soldier and Statesman (1937) 
  • O’Connor, Frank. Death In Dublin: Michael Collins and the Irish Revolution (1937) (reprint 1965, 1991) (also published as The Big Fellow: Michael Collins and the Irish Revolution (1998)) (reprint 2018) ☩ 
  • Taylor, Rex. Michael Collins (1958) 
  • Gleeson, James. Bloody Sunday: How Michael Collins's Agents Assassinated Britain's Secret Service in Dublin on November 21, 1920 (1962) (reprint 2004) ☩ 
  • Neeson, Eoin. The Life and Death of Michael Collins (1968) 
  • Forester, Margery. Michael Collins: The Lost Leader (1971) (reprint 2006) ☩ 
  • Younger, Calton. A State of Disunion: Arthur Griffith, Michael Collins, James Craig, Eamonn de Valera (1972) 
  • Ni Dherig, Isold. The Story of Michael Collins (1975) (reprint in 2008) 
  • O’Connor, Ulick. The Troubles (1975) (reprint 1989) (also published as Michael Collins and the Troubles: The Struggle for Irish Freedom 1912-1922 (1996)) ☩ 
  • Joanon, Pierre. Michael Collins, la naissance de l'I.R.A. (1978) 
  • Ó’Broin, León. Gill’s Irish Lives: Michael Collins (1980) 
  • Dwyer, T. Ryle. Michael Collins and the Treaty: His Differences with De Valera (1981) (also published as I Signed My Death Warrant: Michael Collins & the Treaty (2006)) 
  • Feehan, John M. The Shooting of Michael Collins: Murder or Accident? (1981) ☩ 
  • Ó’Broin, León. In Great Haste (1983) (also published as In Great Haste: The Letters of Michael Collins and Kitty Kiernan (1996)) ☩ 
  • O'Cuinneaghain, Micheal. Partition from Michael Collins to Bobby Sands (1987) 
  • Ryan, Meda. The Day Michael Collins Was Shot (1989) ☩ 
  • Yeats, Padraig & Jimmy Wren. Michael Collins (1989) 
  • Coogan, Tim Pat. Michael Collins: A Biography (1990) (also published as Michael Collins: The Man Who Made Ireland (1996)) ☩ 
  • Dwyer, T. Ryle. Michael Collins: The Man Who Won the War (1990) 
  • Twohig, Patrick. The Dark Shadow of Bealnablath (1991) 
  • Ryan, Desmond. Michael Collins (1994) 
  • Connolly, Colm. The Illustrated Life of Michael Collins (1996) ☩ 
  • Mackay, James. Michael Collins: A Life (1996) ☩ 
  • O'Mahony, Edward. Michael Collins: His Life and Times (1996) (available online here
  • Ryan, Desmond. The Two Leaders (1996) 
  • Ryan, Meda. Michael Collins and the Women in His Life (1996) (also published as Michael Collins and the Women Who Spied for Ireland (2006)) ☩ 
  • Costello, Frank J. Michael Collins in His Own Words (1997) 
  • MacDowell, Vincent. Michael Collins and the Irish Republican Brotherhood (1997) 
  • Nelson, Justin. Michael Collins: The Final Days (1997) 
  • Joannon, Pierre. Michael Collins: Une biographie (1997)
  • Doherty, Gabriel and Dermot Keogh, ed. Michael Collins and the Making of the Irish State (1998) ☩ 
  • De Blas, Juan Antonio. Michael Collins: Día de IRA (1999) 
  • Dwyer, T. Ryle. Big Fellow, Long Fellow (1999) 
  • Osborne, Chrissy. Michael Collins: Himself (2003) 
  • Collins, Michael. with Murphy, Brian P., ed. Michael Collins: Some Original Documents in His Own Hand (2004) ☩ 
  • Dwyer, T. Ryle. The Squad and the Intelligence Operations of Michael Collins (2005) ☩ 
  • Foy, Michael T. Michael Collins’s Intelligence War: The Struggle between the British and the IRA- 1919-1921 (2006) 
  • Hart, Peter. Mick: The Real Michael Collins (2006) ☩ 
  • McDonnell, Vincent. Michael Collins: Most Wanted Man (2008) 
  • Nelson, Justin. Michael Collins: A Fitting Farewell (2008) 
  • ÓDeirg, Íosold. The Story of Michael Collins (Irish Heroes for Children) (2008) ☩ 
  • Osborne, Chrissy. Michael Collins: A Life in Pictures (2008) ☩ 
  • Keating, Bob. Eamon De Valera and Michael Collins: Still Making History (2009) 
  • Conlon, Danny and Alan Barter. Great Irish Heroes: Michael Collins, Billy The Kid, Teddy Roosevelt, Ned Kelly: Fifty True Stories of Irish Men and Women Who Changed the World (2010) 
  • Hittle, J. B. E. Michael Collins and the Anglo-Irish War: Britain's Counterinsurgency Failure (2011) ☩ 
  • Dwyer, T. Ryle. Michael Collins and the Civil War (2012)
  • Hart, Peter David. Michael Collins Letters (2012)
  • Sigerson, S.M. The Assassination of Michael Collins: What Happened at Béal na mBláth? (2013) 
  • Dalton, Charles. With the Dublin Brigade: Espionage and Assassination with Michael Collins' Intelligence Unit (2014) 
  • Crowley, Tim. In Search of Michael Collins: An Illustrated History and Guide to Places in County Cork Associated with Michael Collins (2015)
  • Smith, Rod. Michael Collins: The Big Fellow (2017)
  • Connell, Joseph. Michael Collins: Dublin 1916-22 (2017)
  • Ridley, Nicholas. Michael Collins and the Financing of Violent Political Struggle (2017)
  • Price, Dominic. We Bled Together: Michael Collins, The Squad and the Dublin Brigade (2017) 
  • Coogan, Tim Pat. The Twelve Apostles: Michael Collins, the Squad, and Ireland's Fight for Freedom (2018)
  • Murphy, Gerard. The Great Cover-Up: The Truth About the Death of Michael Collins (2018)
  • Dolan, Anne & William Murphy. Michael Collins: The Man and the Revolution (2018)
  • Massey, Eithne. Michael Collins: Hero and Rebel (2020)

Nonfiction Books About Neil Jordan's 1996 Film, 'Michael Collins':
  • Jordan, Neil. Michael Collins: Screenplay and Film Diary (1996) ☩ 
  • Dillon-Malone, Aubrey. Michael Collins: A Neil Jordan Film (Movies Made in Ireland) (1996) ☩
  • Merivirta, Raita. The Gun and Irish Politics: Examining National History in Neil Jordan's Michael Collins (2009) ☩ 

Fiction Books:
  • Fitzgibbon, Constantine. High Heroic: A Novel about Michael Collins (1969) 
  • Spellman, Cathy. An Excess of Love (1986) 
  • O’Farrell, Padriac. Break the Green Bough/ Rebel Heart (1990) 
  • Flanagan, Thomas. The End of the Hunt (1994) 
  • Greeley, Andrew. Irish Gold (1994) ☩ 
  • Coyle, Robert. The Grainne Journals (1995) 
  • Gherasim, Louise. Michael Collins: Born to Be Great (2001?) 
  • McEvoy, Dermot. Terrible Angel: A Novel of Michael Collins in New York (2002) 
  • McEvoy, Dermot. 13th Apostle: A Novel of a Dublin Family, Michael Collins, and the Irish Uprising (2014) 

Theatre:
  • Flynn, Bryan. Michael Collins: A Music Drama 
  • Kenny, Mary. Allegiance: A Play About Michael Collins and Winston Churchill
  • Dowling, Sam. Michael Collins: Big Fella!
  • Gormley, Edward Francis. In Search of Michael Collins

Other:
  • Anderson, Joseph N. "Our Hero, Our Legend": Dublin Newsprint Propaganda and the Founding of the Cult of Michael Collins. (2008) Senior thesis, revised and presented at the Phi Alpha Theta Utah Regional Conference, Utah State University (available online here) ☩