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Collier the Robber

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  • 23-05-2010 8:01pm
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    Sonovagun
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    Has anyone heard of the Meath Highwayman Michael Collier? I've been reading up on this Real Robin Hood figure with a lot of interest! He held up stage coaches in Drogheda and the Meath/North Dublin area during the early 1800s. Giving what he stole to the poor in return of safe places to stay. He was caught and imprisoned in Trim jail, only to escape and go back to robbing. Second time he was arrested he was sentence to death only for the sentence to be overruled and was sent to West Indies! During the famine he returned to Ireland from Viginina. He died in 1849 aged 69 from cholera.

    Just interested does anyone have any tales or stories about him? There was a TnG documentry about him last year, i didn't get to see it.


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    charlieryan
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    Try this you might get some info,



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