To Fionn. I grew a very few miles from where Michael Collins was born and have always mantained that Ireland lost the only real statesman of the twentieth century when he was so tragically killed. I and hundreds of thousands like me most probably would never have had to go to Sean Bui. The hypocrisy of DeValera in condemning the Treaty staggers the imagination.If only he had accepted the fact, what a different situation there would have been.