"Where was Michael Collins during the Great War? He would have been worth a dozen brass-hats."

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Politicians from IrelandInterior ministersIrish nationalistsFinance ministersMilitary leaders of Ireland
Original Language: English

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Thomas Jones, British civil servant who served as Deputy Secretary to the Cabinet under four British Prime Ministers, as quoted by James Mackay in Michael Collins: A Life (1996), p. 161