Lock of Michael Collins’ hair sells for eye watering price at auction
over 3 years in Leitrim Observer
A lock of hair belonging to Michael Collins has sold at auction in Belfast for £18,000 or €21,000. A revolver the republican leader reputedly had on his person when helping spring fellow revolutionary and future taoiseach Eamon De Valera from Lincoln Jail in 1919 has also gone under the hammer, sell