The Big Fellow

The Big Fellow

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name = The Big Fellow
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author = Frank O'Connor
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country = Ireland
language = English
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genre = Biography
publisher = Picador (USA) & Poolberg Press (UK)
release_date = 1937
media_type = Print (Hardback & Paperback)
pages = 222 (US hardback edition)
isbn = ISBN 0-312-18050-0 (US hardback edition)
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"The Big Fellow" is a 1937 biography of the famed Irish leader, Michael Collins, by Frank O'Connor.

"The Big Fellow" covers the period of Collins's life from the Easter Rising in 1916 to his death during the Irish Civil War in 1922. Unlike most conventional biographies of famous leaders, O'Connor establishes a clear goal in portraying Collins's character and human qualities above his major achievements.

O'Connor, having served with the Anti-Treaty faction 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 against his fellow Irishmen and Collins's untimely death. [From the 1937 biography "The Big Fellow" by Frank O'Connor, pp.9-11]

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