Patrick Pearse

Where did that iconic name Fianna Fáil come from? Well for De Valera it was really, really important to have an Irish language name for the party because as well as the roots of the party being in republicanism, it was in the cultural movement, it was in the language movement as well.

No less a person than Pádraig Pearse said when the Gaelic League was established in 1893, that that was the most revolutionary act in Ireland.

And de Valera's first overt political action was to join the Gaelic League.

And the Gaelic League, it was a political action, because if you think of the Gaelic League, Mary, it was about our customs, It was about our sports.

So his idea of a united Ireland is essentially...

Pádraig Pearse's idea of a united Ireland, or de Valera's idea of a united Ireland, which is tricolour, Elrond the Veen, Parliament in Dublin, everybody has to sit the leave insert with compulsory Irish, including unionists in the north, take the guns off the PSNI, that's how we'd merge the two police forces, um, all of these seemingly intractable problems, he thinks they can get over by just riding roughshod over the unionist community.

So he's told that, you know, this is, this isn't exactly what we're looking for in the current climate.

And Fiak has brought in, but he discovers on day one that it's actually his job to sack the previous man.

And for De Valera, it was very, very important to have an Irish language name because De Valera's first political action as such was joining the Gaelic League.

Pádraig Pearse said that when the Gaelic League was founded by Douglas Hyde, the Irish Revolution began.

So the language was incredibly important.

And Lamasse, who was very much, Sean Lamasse, who was very much a partner with De Valera in the foundation of Fianna Fáil.