One Tuesday in 1911, 30 boys marched out of a school in Wales in protest over the caning of one of their peers. Within days, pupils in more than sixty towns throughout Britain had taken to the streets. The phenomenon then crossed the Irish Sea to Dublin where the Wharf National School in East Wall became the first in Ireland to go on strike.
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