Trams were often stopped by British patrols and each man and woman searched. In the event that a tram was stopped by a Black and Tan patrol, where could a rebel ditch his weapon? Michael Collins hid his gun in this unusual place on Dublin's trams during the Irish War of Independence.
Michael Collins’ “light-hearted” sojourn into the Great Brunswick Street (Pearse St), Dublin Metropolitan Police Station on April 7, 1919, got serious, quickly.
Author Dermot McEvoy takes a look at the events leading up to Michael Collins' Bloody Sunday, one of the seminal events in Irish revolutionary history.