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 nostr:npub18ljjwuh8vt0lrh3fe3vsefddt40u297gtsk3d4v4ywhjnvms9zfqy480hq Michael Collins. 

As the head of Ireland's intelligence effort against the British he was at one point he was the most wanted man in Europe... yet he rode his bicycle around Dublin. He was also the Minister of Finance. 

He negotiated a peace treaty with Churchill for Irish independence. 

After the Anglo-Irish war was over he was the Commander in Chief of Irish Forces during the Irish Civil War and head of the first provisional government of the Irish Free State. 

He was killed in an ambush during the Civil War in 1922. He was just 31.

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