Dr David McKinstry

“COME all ye young rebels and list while I sing, for love of one’s country is a terrible thing…” who reading this has not heard or indeed sang these words?

WHEN we hear the words ‘Dracula’ and ‘Narnia,’ they instantly conjure up images of mythical darkly romantic figures and mystical lands filled with adventure and foreboding in equal measure.

IN TERMS of Irish revolutionaries, we tend to think of James Connolly and Padraig Pearse manning the barricades of the GPO