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Staging a Boy Republic: Patrick Pearse and the Boys of St Enda’s / Scouting for Rebels: Na Fianna Éireann and the 1916 Rising

Talks

Day	Time	Place	Speaker
28^TH MARCH \| EASTER MONDAY	13:30 - 15:00	DIT Aungier Street	Damien O’Meara Elaine Sisson Marnie Hay

DIT Level 3: Room 3-067

Introduced by Damien O’Meara

Staging a Boy Republic: Patrick Pearse and the Boys of St Enda’s

Pearse’s school, St Enda’s founded in 1908, was an experiment in education. What made this school so different from other schools of the time? The St. Enda’s boys were involved in re-enactments and dramas. This talk explores what kinds of plays and pageants were staged and to what extent did these dramas influence the pupils leading up to 1916?

Elaine Sisson, author of Pearse’s Patriots: St. Enda’s and the Cult of Boyhood

Scouting for Rebels: Na Fianna Éireann and the 1916 Rising

The contributions to the rebellion of Na Fianna Éireann, the youth organisation founded in 1909 as an Irish nationalist counter-blast to Robert Baden-Powell’s boy-scout movement.

Marnie Hay, Lecturer at the Department of History, St. Patrick’s Campus, Dublin City University

Photograph courtesy of the Capuchin Archive

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RTÉ would like to gratefully acknowledge the support and participation of the individual speakers who were kind enough to share their research and private collections with the public as part of the RTÉ Reflecting the Rising project. A big thanks also to the many volunteers and actors who gave their time so generously to help make RTÉ Reflecting the Rising a memorable and successful day.

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