The Westport Fianna Boys Scouts on Parade. Boyhood’s Fire: Na Fianna Éireann at War, 1916-1986, by James Durney, (Merrion Press, €18.99 / £17.99) The whole idea of “scouting” derives from the work of an arch-imperialist, Robert Baden Powell during the Boer War, who initiated the first groups. But others, very much anti-imperialist in Ireland, saw in the notion of boys and…
