“My countrymen, awake! arise!
Our work begins anew!”
Autograph of Herbert ‘Barney’ Mellows, a brother of Liam, and Adjutant-General of Fianna Eireann. The entry is in an autograph book from Frongoch in 1916.
The text is a reference to a 19th century poem by Denis Florence MacCarthy entitled “A New Year’s Song”. An appropriate quote, and fitting for the time, and the situation Barney and his comrades found themselves in following the Easter Rising!!
Autograph source: http://www.kilmainhamgaolautographbooks.ie/
The History of Na Fianna Éireann 