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e: At Holy Sock - My Da is Irish so some of his family write his name Michail/ MÃ*cheál. I knew Michael Collins wrote his name the Gaelic way but I couldn't remember how you do Collins in Irish.  |
It's just funny because translating your name into Irish, particularly at the time and now in Northern Ireland at least, is seen as a statement of Irish nationalism and a sort of shunning the Anglo identity that was considered imposed upon them by the British. So leaving Collins untouched creates some mixed signals.