During the Civil War, Michael Collins as Commander-in-Chief of the National Army, a formal uniformed army that formed around the pro-Treaty IRA and attempted to take republican held areas. On driving from Bandon to Cork City, in August 1922, Collins was killed in an ambush by the Anti-Treaty IRA. Collins' body was shipped to Dublin where he lay in state for three days in Dublin City Hall where tens of thousands of mourners walked past his coffin to pay their respects.

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Location: City hall, Dublin City, Ireland
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