On Sunday May 26th 1926 ‘The Citizens of Dublin’ were called to the La Scala Theatre, just off O’Connell Street, by Eamonn De Valera to found Fianna Fail, the Republican Party. The 1,400 seat theatre was designed for opera and FF has been hitting the high notes ever since. Mind you they’ve also had many bum notes as well. For generations of these past hundred years, the party was to become home to the political hopes and ambitions of a party that would dominate the political scene as the preferred choice for a one party government. The new party had two main policies: the revival of the Irish language and a united Ireland… nothing much to write about those successes.
