Michael Collins was an Irish revolutionary leader, soldier and politician who remained a prominent figure in Ireland’s fight for independence during the early twentieth century. He became associated with radical Irish national politics while spending ten years in London remaining active with different Irish organisations, particularly the ‘Irish Republican Brotherhood’ (IRB), a secret society devoted for setting up of an "independent democratic republic" in Ireland. He remained its President from November 1920 till his death. A prominent member of the ‘First Dáil’, he was appointed Minister for Finance to the Aireacht (ministry) in ‘Dáil Éireann’. Collins became Director of Organisation and Arms Procurement and Director of Intelligence of the ‘Irish Republican Army’ (IRA), a force of the Irish Republic being declared by ‘Dáil Éireann’. He played a leadership role during guerrilla warfare of IRA and also disabled British intelligence system in Ireland. He was a member of the Irish delegation during Anglo-Irish Treaty negotiations which led to the Anglo-Irish Treaty in December 1921 thus bringing the Irish Free State into existence. Thereafter he served as Commander-in-chief of the National Army and Chairman of the Provisional Government of Irish Free State before being shot to death in August 1922 by extremist republicans during the ‘Irish Civil War’.