OTD: One-fifth of Ireland attends Michael Collins' funeral :

An estimated 500,000 people lined the streets of Dublin on August 28,1922 to pay their respects to Irish revolutionary hero Michael Collins at his funeral after he was gunned down in an ambush in Co Cork.

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