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==Civil War== [[File:Alf Colley.jpg|thumb|right|Brigadier Alf Colley, killed during Irish Civil War at Whitehall, August 1922]] Fianna Éireann played a major part in the [[Irish Civil War|Civil War]] fighting, especially in Dublin. When the Four Courts garrison was attacked in July 1922, a second front was created to relieve the Four Courts. The Dublin Brigade of the Fianna provided many leaders in this period. All along the eastern side of O'Connell Street buildings were taken over and barricaded. [[Parnell Square]] and Parnell Street were similarly barricaded. Fianna, under their new Brigadier, Seán Harling, took over 35 North Great Georges Street as a barracks. In August 1922 (the same month in which [[Michael Collins (Irish leader)|Michael Collins]] and [[Arthur Griffith]]) died, the Fianna sustained a heavy blow when two of their senior officers in Dublin, Seán Cole and Alf Colley, were shot dead by [[Free State Army]] Intelligence members at The Thatch, Whitehall. Four hundred officers and boys of the Fianna had taken part in the Dublin fighting of 1922. By October of that year, the only active members were in an eight-member active service unit led by Frank Sherwin.{{citation needed|date=February 2016}} The bullet-riddled corpses of three teenaged Fianna Scouts, Edwin Hughes (17), Joseph Rogers (16) and Brendan Holohan (16), were found at The Quarries, Naas Road, [[Clondalkin]] on 28 November 1922.<ref name="Myers">[[Kevin Myers]], [http://www.independent.ie/opinion/columnists/kevin-myers/pity-those-poor-children-all-victims-of-our-rising-heroes-1276255.html "Pity those poor children"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121022034840/http://www.independent.ie/opinion/columnists/kevin-myers/pity-those-poor-children-all-victims-of-our-rising-heroes-1276255.html |date=22 October 2012 }}, [[Independent.ie]], 29 January 2008; accessed 17 April 2012.</ref> They were all from the Drumcondra area and had been putting up republican posters in the Clonliffe Road district. They were arrested by a high-ranking Free State officer, [[Charlie Dalton]] (younger brother of [[Emmet Dalton]]). The Scouts were brought for interrogation to [[Wellington Barracks]], where Free State Army Intelligence had their HQ. That was the last time that they were seen alive.<ref name="Myers"/> When the Free State started to execute Republican prisoners, the first to be shot were four young men who had left the Fianna to join the Irish Republican Army. The executions of [[Rory O'Connor (Irish republican)|Rory O'Connor]], [[Joe McKelvey]], [[Liam Mellows]] and [[Richard Barrett (Irish republican)|Dick Barrett]] became a symbol for the Fianna. They became known as "The Four Martyrs". A prominent ex-Fianna officer, Hugo MacNeill (nephew of [[Eoin MacNeill]]), commanded the firing squad. Eamon Martin related that he was a cellmate of Mellows in Mountjoy Prison. Until 1964, an annual concert was held by the Fianna to commemorate their executions. These executions were followed by another group of three, who had similarly graduated from the ranks of the Dublin Brigade of the Fianna.<ref>''War News'' No. 37, 3 December 1922</ref> The Fianna ceased to function as an open organisation by Christmas 1922. All senior Fianna members were being rounded up by the Free State military and CID, and at the brutal internment camp Tintown 3 in [[The Curragh]] there was one hut dedicated to Fianna members, some as young as fourteen.<ref name=Watts/>
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