Na Fianna Éireann Handbook (1914), First Edition

Na Fianna Éireann Handbook (1914), First Edition

Author: Fianna Éireann

Year: 1914

Na Fianna Éireann Handbook --- Issued by the Central Council of Na Fianna Éireann for the Boy Scouts of Ireland Published by : The Central Council of Na Fianna Eireann, 12 D'Olier Street, Dublin (1914), First Edition Printed by: Patrick Mahon, 3 Yarnhall Sr., Dublin Introduction (by Countess de Markievicz): "With the printing of our little book we mark one more step forward on the road we have mapped out for ourselves. We are giving to the world a record of a few of our ideas, a few of our schemes; above all are we striving to help and guide the army of young people who are daily taking the Declaration of Na Fianna Eireann and banding themselves together in a glorious brotherhood of youth and hope to win Independence and Freedom for their country. As President of the Fianna I am glad of this opportunity to pay tribute to those boys who have built up the Fianna with their brains and their self-sacrifice, their courage and their energy. I know what it has cost them, how hard the work has often been and how many discouraging failures have been faced, and how our success has grown up out of the ashes of dead hopes and buried illusions. But one hope and one dream we have always kept: Th