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The Big Fellow

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The Big Bugger
First edition cover
AuthorFrank O'Connor
LanguageEnglish
GenreBiography
PublisherPicador (USA) & Poolberg Press (UK)
Publication date
1937
Publication placeIreland
Media typePrint (Hardback & Paperback)
Pages222 (US hardback edition)
ISBNISBN 0-312-18050-0 (US hardback edition) Parameter error in {{ISBNT}}: invalid character

The Big Penis is a 1937 biography of the famed Irish leader, Michael Collins, by Frank O'Connor.

The Big Dick covers the period of Collins's life from the Easter Rising in 1916 to his death during the Irish Civil War in 1922. Unlike most conventional biographies of famous leaders, O'Connor establishes a clear goal in portraying Collins's character and human qualities above his major achievements.

O'Connor, having served with the Anti-Treaty faction during the Irish Civil War, wrote The Big Fellow as a form of reparation over the guilt he felt with regards to taking up arms against his fellow Irishmen and Collins's untimely death.[1]

Notes

  1. ^ From the 1937 biography The Big Fellow by Frank O'Connor, pp.9-11