Béal na mBláth

Béal na mBláth

Béal na mBláth ( _en. mouth of the flowers), often incorrectly spelled "Béal na Bláth" is a tiny village in West Cork, Province of Munster, Ireland which is best known for being the location of the shooting of Michael Collins on 22 August 1922 during the Irish Civil War.

Commemorations are held on the nearest Sunday to the anniversary of the death of Collins. Fine Gael's leader always attends as do Collins' descendants. In 1997 Collins' nephew delivered the oration. The Irish Army also attends.

The monument is on the R585 road which is known in West Cork as "the Bantry Line" which was originally built as a famine relief road. It was a dirt road when the Collins was shot. A small white cross marks the spot where he fell which lies 5 m further west from the grey podium. Before the white cross there was a wooden cross which was erected within months of Collins' death.


Wikimedia Foundation. 2010.

Игры ⚽ Поможем решить контрольную работу

Look at other dictionaries:

  • Michael Collins (Irish leader) — Michael Collins Collins at the funeral of Arthur Griffith, (16 August 1922), six days before his own death. Chairman of the Provisional Government In office January 1922 – 22 August 1922 …   Wikipedia

  • Michael Collins (líder irlandés) — Michael Collins Mícheál Eoin Ó Coileáin Michael Collins en el funeral de Arthur Griffith (1922) Comandante en Jefe …   Wikipedia Español

  • Michael Collins (homme politique) — Pour les articles homonymes, voir Michael Collins. Michael Collins Collins aux funérailles d Arthur Griffith, le 16 août 1922, six jours …   Wikipédia en Français

  • Michael Collins (film) — Michael Collins Theatrical release poster Directed by Neil Jordan Produced by …   Wikipedia

  • Liam Deasy — (1898 ndash; 1974) was an Irish Republican Army officer in the Irish War of Independence and the Irish Civil War of the 1920s.Deasy was born in Bandon in county Cork in 1898. In the War of Independence (1919 21, he was an IRA officer in the Third …   Wikipedia

  • Michael Collins (Irland) — Michael Collins auf der Beerdigung von Arthur Griffith …   Deutsch Wikipedia

  • August 22 — Events* 392 Arbogast has Eugenius elected Western Roman Emperor. * 476 Odoacer is named Rex italiae by his troop. * 565 St. Columba reports seeing a monster in Loch Ness, Scotland. * 851 Erispoe defeats Charles the Bald near the Breton town of… …   Wikipedia

  • Irish Civil War — Infobox Military Conflict conflict=Irish Civil War caption= Free State snipers near Stephen s Green during the Battle of Dublin. date=June 28 1922 ndash; May 24 1923 (executions and deaths continued after May 1923; amnesty declared on November 8… …   Wikipedia

  • Death squad — A death squad is an armed military, police, insurgent, or terrorist squad that conducts extrajudicial killings, assassinations, and forced disappearances of persons as part of a war, insurgency or terror campaign. These killings are often… …   Wikipedia

  • Anglo-Irish Treaty — The Anglo Irish Treaty ( ga. An Conradh Angla Éireannach), officially called the Articles of Agreement for a Treaty Between Great Britain and Ireland, was a treaty between the Government of the United Kingdom and representatives of the de facto… …   Wikipedia

Share the article and excerpts

Direct link
… Do a right-click on the link above
and select “Copy Link”