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==Fianna proscribed== {{unreferenced section|date=December 2015}} Fianna Éireann was decimated after the Civil War, and further disintegration occurred in 1926 when [[Fianna Fáil]] was founded. Constance Markievicz was a founding member of that party but, her health broken by years of imprisonment, she died in 1927 after two appendix operations. In 1930 the Fianna got the use of the Hardwicke Hall in Dublin (owned by the family of [[Joseph Plunkett]] and site of [[Thomas MacDonagh]]'s Theatre of Ireland from 1914 to 1916) as a headquarters as [[George Oliver Plunkett|George Plunkett]] was nominated by the IRA as Chief Scout. This was a nominal position; the organisation was run by the HQ staff. At this time, the Fianna expanded in proportion to the rest of the Republican Movement. In 1933 Frank Ryan became Adjutant General for eight months. The 1934 HQ report said that there were 104 ''sluaithe'' in operation. Eight hundred people paraded under the Fianna flag at Bodenstown that year, and Diarmuid MacGiolla Phadraig became Adjutant General. The Free State government brought in new legislation in 1931 to counter the popularity of resurgent republicanism. Now the Fianna, the IRA and Cumann na mBan were all classified as illegal organisations. Many arrests followed, and these organisations had to go underground. When the [[Fianna Fáil]] government was elected to power in March 1932, this legislation was revoked, most of the prisoners were freed and many young republicans switched allegiance to Fianna Fáil. In 1934, the Fianna Fáil government expanded the Free State CID, the new ranks were filled largely by enticing members of the IRA's Dublin Brigade to join the [[Special Detective Unit|Special Branch]] of [[Garda Síochána|An Garda Síochána]]. Former volunteers were sworn in as Gardaí detective officers and issued handguns, ammunition, badges and whistles. They were under the control of [[Ned Broy]] of the CID in a group known as the "Broy Harriers", a term first used in the Seanad by [[Brian O'Rourke (politician)|Senator Brian O'Rourke]] during the discussion on the Garda Síochána estimates on 16 August 1933.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/1933-08-16/6?highlight%5B0%5D=clare&highlight%5B1%5D=clare|title=Public Business. – Public Services (Temporary Economies) Bill, 1933—Message from the Dáil. – Seanad Éireann (1931 Seanad) – Wednesday, 16 Aug 1933 – Houses of the Oireachtas|first=Houses of the|last=Oireachtas|date=16 August 1933|website=oireachtas.ie}}</ref> The 1936 Fianna Convention reported that there were 18 ''sluaithe'' in the organisation. The IRA, Cumann na mBan and the Fianna were once again outlawed that June. In 1938 an advisory body of prominent republicans was set up to help reorganise the Fianna; included were George Plunkett, [[Brian O'Higgins]], [[Mary MacSwiney]] and Madge Daly. The following year, Joe Atkinson of Belfast was appointed as a national organiser and cycled through the country contacting failed Fianna ''sluaithe'' and creating new ones. Later that year he was appointed Adjutant General and Liam Nolan of Kerry became National Organiser. George Plunkett resigned as Chief Scout for health reasons. In 1940, 150 Fianna marched in Dublin on the eve of the executions of two republicans responsible for a fatal bombing in [[Coventry]], Barnes and McCormack in Britain. Fianna in Dublin were under the control of Jack Rowan, Kevin Hudson and Mattie O'Neill. Four ''sluaithe'' were reported active in Dublin and although the use of Hardwicke Hall was lost, newly released internees helped in the re-organization, including Wattie Bell, Noel and Des Goulding, Paddy Dillon and Mattie Carey. By 1943, owing to arrests, internment and emigration, the Fianna in Dublin was reduced to one ''sluagh'', run by Peadar Timmins. Dick Bell was released from internment in 1945 and led the Fianna in Dublin, with Con Dillon as his adjutant and Mattie O'Neill as quartermaster. They set up a Fianna GHQ. By 1947 Dublin had a new O/C, Des Carron, with Wattie Bell as his adjutant. The first annual camp of the new group was held in 1947 and later that year Carron and Bell cycled to Munster, organising Fianna ''sluaithe'' at Clonmel and Tralee. The following year the first Ard Fheis since 1940 was held in Dublin. Dublin reported having one ''sluagh'', which met at 9 Parnell Square.
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