Michael Collins’ “light-hearted” sojourn into the Great Brunswick Street (Pearse St), Dublin Metropolitan Police Station on April 7, 1919, got serious, quickly.
George Brent, an Easter Rising Irish rebel turned Hollywood star, was born on this day in 1904. Born George Brendan Nolan, this Irishman was a doppelganger of Michael Collins. He went on to enjoy a Hollywood career after Ireland's Easter Rising.