Na Fianna Éireann: The Lost Boys of the Irish Revolution

Sinéad Callanan, a student of Castletroy College in Limerick, was a prizewinner in the all-island Decade of Centenaries schools essay competition for this study of Na Fianna Éireann

Na Fianna Éireann: The Lost Boys of the Irish Revolution

When men come to write the history of the freeing of Ireland, they shall have to record that the boys of Na Fianna Éireann stood in the battle gap until the Volunteers armed …

So said Patrick Pearse in To the Boys of Ireland. Why, then, does it seem that he was mistaken?

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