The year of rebellion was Wexford’s time

Paul Rouse on the battle for the All-Ireland and an independent Irish State

It’s late on a Sunday night, a week before Christmas 1916. Gus Kennedy and the rest of the Wexford senior footballers are out at an all-night dance in the Connarchy Hotel on Parnell Square.

Kennedy has just given a display of set-dancing that has enraptured those at the dance.