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ON ITS WEBSITE, Newbury Street ma*****na retailer Rooted In touts its commitment to social justice, equity, and the Boston area community. It boasts of profit sharing with employees and a commitment to building generational wealth for people of color. “Our mission is to build a community-conscious...

06/19/2022

Happy Fathers Day! To mark the occasion here is a little bit about Michael Collins’ father.

Michael John Collins was born in Woodfield in 1815. It was thought that he was seventh son of a seventh son and part of the sixth generation of the Collins family born at Woodfield. He worked most of his life as a tradesman and farmer living on his brother Paddy’s farm. He married a local woman, Mary Anne O’Brien in 1875 and the couple went on to have eight children together. Michael was the youngest and his sisters later stated that he was his father’s favourite and followed the old man everywhere on the farm.

It is quite likely that Michael John had a strong influence on his youngest son. He had received an education in a local hedge school and was said to have been well read and could speak a number of languages. As such he encouraged his children into education as a means to better themselves. In his early years he was likely a Fenian like others in the Collins family with one nephew arrested for marching in formation in Co. Louth. It was said that Collins’ father also journeyed once a week to Cork prison to visit his brothers who served time there after beating up a Land agent who was alleged to have trampled their crops. In his later years and by the time of Michael’s youth his father’s politics seem to have moderated. He read the more moderate nationalist Weekly Freeman and was involved in a local dispute where he seemed to break a boycott to assist a man who had previously assisted him. His reward was a severe beating at the hands of a relative.

Michael John Collins died in 1897, sadly leaving his young Michael at just six years old, without his idol and father. On his death bed he was remembered as having said of Michael; ‘Mind that child, he’ll be a great man yet and will do great things for Ireland.’

Pictured is Michael aged about 11 with his brother Pat, sister Mary, Grandmother and mother.

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