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The story - both intimate and terrifying - of how a handful of men, armed with nothing more than handguns and guts, forced the greatest country in the world from their shores. On Easter Mon, April 24, 1916, the first great trend of the twentieth century commenced as working-class women and men occupied structures throughout Dublin, Ireland, like the general post office on O'Connell Neighborhood. Among the commoners in the GPO was a young staff captain of the Irish Volunteers named Michael Collins. He was signed up with the next day with a fourteen-year-old messenger boy, Eoin Kavanagh. Four days and nights later they might all surrender, nevertheless they got struck the match that would burn THE UK out of Ireland for the first time in seven hundred years. The 13th Apostle is the reimagined history of how Michael Collins, together with his young acolyte Eoin, changed Ireland from a colony into a country. Collins's secret tool was his intellect system and his assassination squad, nicknamed "The Twelve Apostles." On November 21, 1920, the squad - with its thirteenth member, young Eoin - assassinated the entire British Secret Service in Dublin. Twelve months and sixteen days and nights later, Collins agreed upon the Treaty at 10 Downing Neighborhood, which helped bring into being what's, today, the Republic of Ireland. An epic novel in the custom of Thomas Flanagan's The Yr of the French and Leon Uris's Trinity, The 13th Apostle is a story that will get the creativeness and hearts of freedom-loving visitors everywhere.