Boy soldier of Citizen Army

Matthew Connolly was the younger brother of Sean Connolly, the Irish Citizen Army officer who was among the earliest rebel casualties on Easter Monday. His Witness Statement is interesting because it shows the ICA had a youth group and suggests at least one other ICA member was killed before his brother at City Hall. It is interesting on Dr Kathleen Lynn and records the amazing fact that Matthew’s father, four brothers and a sister were all ICA members

http://www.bureauofmilitaryhistory.ie/reels/bmh/BMH.WS1746.pdf