Carlow County -
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Pat Purcell Papers Fianna Boy Scouts
By kind permission of Mr Michael Purcell
Letter in the PPP.
Leix and Offaly Headquarters.
Old Jail, Portlaoise.
3rd April 1922.
To:
The Officer in Charge, Carlow Batt. Irish Republican Army.
and to:
The Head Centre of The Irish Republican Brotherhood, Carlow
Branch.
A company of the "Fianna Boy Scouts" was
established in Portlaoise on Sunday last. Since then the parents of some
of the boys who joined have been approached by local "Free Staters" and
advised not to allow their children to remain as members of the Fianna
Boy Scouts as they claim it is a Republican organisation with affinity
to Eamon de Valera !, some of the young Boy Scouts have been forced to
leave. Even under British rule this organisation was regarded with
respect by the authorities. I would like you to ask those "Free Staters"
if this is the kind of Irish Republic they believe in ?. I am sending
copies of this letter to the National newspapers or publication.