Michael Collins This is Me

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1. 1. Alliance Française of Toronto

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   Published on: 2/27/2008   Last Visited: 2/27/2008

   Michael Collins has been with TD Bank Financial Group for 15 years.He has experience in Investment Banking (with some industry specificity) and the financial restructuring of highly indebted companies.This was followed by 5 years in London, UK, where he held positions as an originator of investment banking products, and was Head of European Loan Syndications.He has also successfully restructured two public, media sector companies, involving compromise agreements with various owner and financier stakeholder groups, as well as a Board member search.These negotiations involved more than euro1.5 billion of debt, and took place across multiple Western European cultures and legal systems.Michael is now in Toronto ensuring TD's enterprise-wide risk management practices comply with the new international regulations for advanced, and complex financial institutions.He is also sponsoring or chairing several projects which report to the CEO or the CRO, largely involving matters related to governance, policy, and oversight and monitoring.Finally, Michael has worked closely with the Canadian Banker's Association and the Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions, and Chaired several committees responsible for negotiating items of discretion within the new international regulatory framework.While in London, Michael was a student of Alliance Française for 2 years.

2. 2. matthewyglesias.theatlantic.com

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   Published on: 8/7/2007   Last Visited: 3/13/2008

   Collins was "really" driven by personal ambition rather than Irish nationalism as can be seen in his 1916 correspondence about the possibility of moving to Chicago.
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   Matt, why the interest in Collins?
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   Seconding Manfred's recommendation of the Coogan bio, Michael Collins, the Man Who Made Ireland.
   
   One besetting problem with Irish history is shared with the American South, where, as Faulkner famously said, the past isn't dead, it isn't even past.There's Michael Collins the man, and then there's "Michael Collins", the position, as opposed to Eamon DeValera, and then there's "Eamon DeValera", the position.
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   Coogan at least is up front about it -- Mick's his man.
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   I've read both biographies of Collins (I am interested in him because he was one of the few truly successful "terrorist" leaders in history).
   
   I think Coogan wrote with the purpose of rehabilitating Collins after years of his memory being allowed to fade at the expense of De Valera's version of history.
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   This triggered a wave of adulation for Collins (which I tend to support).
   
   Hart sought to present a different picture of Collins, perhaps to debunk the Coogan version of Collins, which at times does border on the saintly.
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   One is left wondering, though, how the IRA was able to succeed in forcing the British to the negotiating table, while De Valera was out of the country, if Collins was not a supremely effective leader.
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   Maybe, IIRC, 'cos Ben-Gurion named his machine-gun Mihail in honor of Collins.Collins was the originator of many modern insurgent tactics (he wasn't the first to use the car-bomb, but certainly was one of the earliest).Or maybe Matt's taken an interest in Northern Ireland as a case of countersurgency, and realized the need to do some background reading.
   
   Yeah, Collins is somewhat overhyped, but fortunately his star rising in history was the counterbalance to DeValera's star falling.
   
   I'll agree with Menand's critique of biography-as-insight-into-history.
   
   "Collins was "really" driven by personal ambition rather than Irish nationalism as can be seen in his 1916 correspondence about the possibility of moving to Chicago."

3. 3. library.nocrew.org

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   Last Visited: 2/13/2008

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