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==Post 1916 reorganisation== {{unreferenced section|date=December 2015}} The Fianna was first to reorganise after the [[Easter Rising]] of 1916. A provisional governing committee was set up in Dublin in May 1916, whose members included Eamon Martin, Seamus Pounch, Theo Fitzgerald, Liam Staines, and Joe Reynolds. All had evaded the round-up after the Rising. This committee functioned until January 1917, when it handed over command to the newly released senior officers. In February 1917, a section of the Fianna marched in full uniform to mass at [[Blanchardstown|Blanchardstown, County Dublin]] for [[Michael Mallin]], who had been executed following the [[Easter Rising]]. Garry Holohan reported that "As the police did not interfere, we got courage and got bolder and bolder. On one route march, the police at James Street stopped us and an Inspector of the DMP grabbed me. However, as the Fianna Scouts became so threatening, I was released." A year after the Rising, a large demonstration was held outside the burnt-out shell of Liberty Hall. A large contingent of Dublin Metropolitan Police (DMP), including one ranked inspector, John Mills, arrived and the Riot Act was read to the crowd. The police waded into the crowd with batons to arrest those addressing the crowd, including [[Cathal Brugha]] and [[George Noble Plunkett|George Noble (Count) Plunkett]]. While escorting the prisoners, Inspector Mills was struck a mortal blow to the head with a [[Hurling|camán]]. Later Fianna witness statements indicated that the blow was struck by Eamon Murray, a young Fianna officer, who was O/C of a Sluagh (branch) on Parnell Square. He made off along Abbey Street, pursued by a DMP man. He was cornered at Marlborough Street, but he or another Fianna member drew a pistol and the policeman backed off.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://comeheretome.com/2014/01/09/the-killing-of-inspector-mills-in-june-1917/|title=The killing of Inspector Mills in June 1917|date=9 January 2014|access-date=21 April 2019|archive-date=21 April 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190421042436/https://comeheretome.com/2014/01/09/the-killing-of-inspector-mills-in-june-1917/|url-status=live}}</ref> He was sheltered by Constance Markievicz<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.militaryarchives.ie/collections/online-collections/bureau-of-military-history-1913-1921/reels/bmh/BMH.WS0936.pdf#page=5 |title=Statement of Witness |date=6 December 1921 |website=MilitaryArchives.ie |access-date=13 December 2022}}</ref> then smuggled to the United States, where he remained until the Truce of 1921, and later fought with the anti-Treaty IRA during the Civil War.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://mspcsearch.militaryarchives.ie/docs/files//PDF_Pensions/R2/MSP34REF12204EdwardJMurray/WMSP34REF12204EdwardJMurray.pdf |title=Military Pension |last=Edward J. Murray|website=MilitaryArchives.ie |access-date=13 December 2022}}</ref> An intensive recruiting campaign was set in motion throughout the city and county after the earlier reorganisation of January 1917, and it proved to be a tremendous success. Recruits came in large numbers and new companies were formed. In June, the Dublin Battalion had become so large and unwieldy, that it was decided to set up a Brigade structure of two battalions. The county was simply split in two, with the Liffey as the divide. South of the Liffey became the 1st Battalion and north of the Liffey became the 2nd Battalion. The Dublin Brigade Staff in June 1917 comprised Garry Holohan (Commandant), P.J. Stephenson (Adjutant) and Joe Reynolds (QM).<ref>{{cite book |last1=Dalton |first1=Charles |last2=Davies |first2=Peter |date=12 June 1929 |title=With the Dublin brigade (1917–1921) |url=https://openlibrary.org/works/OL19676403W/With_the_Dublin_brigade_%281917-1921%29?edition= |location=London |publisher=Peter Davies, Limited |isbn=1-78117-224-2}}</ref> The Fianna continued to defy the British ban on marching and parading, and drilled openly with hurleys in open defiance. This led to clashes with the DMP and the [[Royal Irish Constabulary]]. In July 1917 the whole Dublin Battalion went on a route march through the south city and county. Efforts were made by the DMP to stop the march and break it up at [[Terenure]] and [[Rathmines]] DMP stations, but the marchers broke through the cordons at both points. The march continued to the GPO, where the parade was dismissed. Seán Saunders recalled being arrested at Milltown with [[Roddy Connolly]] (son of [[James Connolly]]), Hugo MacNeill, Theo Fitzgerald, Seán McLoughlin and Garry Holohan.{{citation needed|date=February 2016}} ===Army Agreement=== {{unreferenced section|date=February 2016}} It came to the attention of GHQ Staff c1918 that in many areas around the country the Fianna was controlled by the local units of the Irish Volunteers. A meeting of Fianna GHQ representatives and Volunteer representatives was held in Dublin to discuss the problem. What emerged from this meeting was the Army Agreement. From that point on, the Volunteers would not seek to control Fianna in their areas. Those who reached the age of seventeen had transferred to the Volunteers; this would now cease and any transfer would be voluntary. The volunteer O/C was to liaise with the Fianna O/C on all local matters, and due consideration was to be extended to Fianna.
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