Over the Easter weekend I attended a number of Easter Commemorations in memory of the historic events of Easter week 1916. On Saturday, the main Sinn Féin Easter Commemoration was held at Ballinlough. We marched to the Republican Plot in the local cemetery where Volunteer Patrick McDonnell and Volunteer Seamus Cogan, who were killed during the Tan War, are buried. Sinn Féin’s Ireland East EU candidate, Tomás Sharkey, made the keynote address.
On Sunday we had the first annual Philip Clarke Commemoration at Rossin Bridge between Slane and Drogheda. We were delighted with the turnout and are looking forward to making this an annual event and something of a tradition. Philip Clarke was from Monknewtown. He was a member of the Irish Citizen Army and was killed in heavy fighting on Easter week 1916 at St. Stephen’s Green in Dublin. He is buried in the Republican Plot in Glasnevin Cemetery. In 1966 a monument was erected to Philip on Rossin Bridge.
Later on Sunday I attended the broad Republican commemoration in Duleek, which remembers all those who gave their lives in the cause of Irish freedom, particularly those who died on Hunger Strike between 1916 and 1981. The march left the town square and marched to the Hunger Strike monument on the Station Road. There was a great crowd. Comhghairdeas to the Duleek 16-81 Monument Committee who organised the event.
On Sunday we had the first annual Philip Clarke Commemoration at Rossin Bridge between Slane and Drogheda. We were delighted with the turnout and are looking forward to making this an annual event and something of a tradition. Philip Clarke was from Monknewtown. He was a member of the Irish Citizen Army and was killed in heavy fighting on Easter week 1916 at St. Stephen’s Green in Dublin. He is buried in the Republican Plot in Glasnevin Cemetery. In 1966 a monument was erected to Philip on Rossin Bridge.
Later on Sunday I attended the broad Republican commemoration in Duleek, which remembers all those who gave their lives in the cause of Irish freedom, particularly those who died on Hunger Strike between 1916 and 1981. The march left the town square and marched to the Hunger Strike monument on the Station Road. There was a great crowd. Comhghairdeas to the Duleek 16-81 Monument Committee who organised the event.
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