So what is the background to the lock of hair? Michael Collins was 31 years old and engaged to be married to Kitty Kiernan when he was shot dead in an ambush in his native County Cork in August 1922.

Michael Collins Great Grandniece Maeve Burke and Grand ... on route to Béal na Bláth, where he was shot dead later that day. It is also possible that his body passed the location in the early ...