"So tear up your mourning and hang up your brightest colours in his honour; and let us all praise God that he did not die in a snuffy bed of a trumpery cough, weakened by age, and saddened by the disappointments that would have attended his work had he lived." So wrote George Bernard Shaw to Michael Collins' sister on hearing of the assassination on August 21st, 1922, of the great "powerhouse of the revolution". Fifteen years later, Frank O'Connor, who had been on the opposite side to Collins in the Revolution, published The Big Fellow, his uncompromising but humane study of one whose stature and genius he had come to recognise. Written, according to American scholar James H. Matthews, "to preserve a great and misunderstood career," it is a masterly, evocative portrait of one of Ireland's most charismatic figures.

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