National - Event Notice
Thursday January 01 1970
Republican Easter Commemorations (List)
REMEMBER EASTER WEEK 1916
*** Complete List of Republican Easter Commemorations Ireland, Glasgow, London & New York.****
Nation-wide list of Republican Easter Commemorations
ANTRIM
Belfast, Easter Sunday, Republican Plot, Milltown Cemetery,
12 noon.
ARMAGH
Armagh city, Easter Sunday, Sandyhill Cemetery, assemble
2.30pm at gates of cemetery. Flute band in attednance. Function
on Easter Sunday night.
Keady, South Armagh, Easter Sunday, assemble St Patrick’s
Street, march to the grave of Volunteer Eddie Dynes, St Patrick’s
Cemetery, 1pm.
Lurgan, Holy Saturday, assemble Murals, Kilwilkie, for
commemoration at Republican Plot, St Colman’s Cemetery, 2pm.
CARLOW
Easter Saturday, 4pm, wreath-laying, grave of Tony Ruane,
Carlow Cemetery.
CLARE
Easter Monday commemoration, Drumcliff Cemetery, Ennis,
4pm.
CORK
Assemble at Wilton Roundabout, 2pm Easter Sunday. Parade to
Republican Plot, St Finbarr’s Cemetery.
DERRY
Cúchulainn Memorial, City Cemetery, Derry City, Easter
Sunday, assemble at 12 noon.
Wreath-laying ceremonies at the following on Easter Sunday
morning: The Loup Cemetery, 9am at the grave of Brigadier Seán
Larkin; and the grave of Tommy Toner in Dungiven, 10.15am at
the graves of Vols Kealy, O’Carolan and Kilmartin and hunger
striker Kevin Lynch.
DONEGAL
Holy Saturday, Doneyloup, Castlefin 7.30pm. Clady Bridge,
11.30am.
Drumboe Easter Sunday, assemble Johnson’s Corner 2.30pm.
DOWN
Easter Sunday, Newry, 10 am, St Mary’s Cemetery.
DUBLIN
Holy Saturday, wreath-laying ceremony, Balbriggan Bridge,
2.30pm.
Easter Sunday, commemoration at Deansgrange Cemetery,
1pm.
Easter Monday, Assemble Garden of Remembrance, 2pm for
march to GPO, O’Connell Street, Dublin.
FERMANAGH
See April SAOIRSE.
GALWAY
Assemble at Cathedral for parade to Liam Mellows Memorial,
Eyre Square, Galway city, Easter Sunday, 11am.
Republican Plot, Donaghpatrick, Headford, Easter Sunday,
assemble Queally’s Cross, Cahirlistrane, 3pm.
GLASGOW
Easter Sunday commemoration and function. Details from
SAOIRSE sellers.
KERRY
Cahersiveen, Easter Sunday, assemble 2.30pm at the
Monument, The Square.
Tralee, Easter Sunday, assemble at Denny Street
at 2pm parade to Republican Plot, Rath Cemetery.
Killarney, wreathlaying ceremony at Republican Monument.
Easter Monday, Republican Plot, Listowel, assemble at
graveyard gates, 2.30pm.
KILDARE
Easter Sunday, Moone Cemetery, Athy, Co Kildare,
10.30am .
Easter Monday, 12 Noon, wreath laying ceremony, the
Republican Plot, Naas. Wreaths will also be laid throughout the
county.
KILKENNY
Good Friday: Wreath laying ceremony a Republican Memorial
Plaque, Friary Street, Kilkenny city on Good Friday, 12 noon.
Easter Saturday: Assemble at 1.45pm at Technical school,
Mooncoin, Co Kilkenny for march to the grave of Jo Foran.
LAOIS
Easter Monday 10.30am, wreath-laying ceremony,
Barrowhouse Cemetery at the grave of James Lacey and William
Connor.
Easter Monday, 11am, Portarlington, wreath-laying ceremony,
1798 Monument.
LEITRIM
See April SAOIRSE.
LIMERICK
Easter Sunday, assemble Munster Fair Tavern, Mulgrave Street,
2.45pm, for parade to Republican Plot, Mount St Lawrence
Cemetery.Easter Sunday.
LONDON
Easter Monday, commemoration, Hendon Cemetery, Holder’s
Hill Road, Hendon, 11.30am.
LONGFORD
Easter Sunday, commemoration, Ardagh at the grave of Vol
Alfie McHugh, Irish Citizens’Army, 3pm.
LOUTH
Dundalk, Easter Sunday, commemoration, Republican Plot, St
Patrick’s Cemetery, 2pm.
MAYO
Kilkelly, Easter Monday, 12 noon, assemble at Church gate and
parade to East Mayo Brigade Memorial on main Sligo-Galway
Road.
MEATH
Palm Sunday, April 4, Thomas Allen Commemoration,
Longwood,Co Meath. Assemble Main Street,Longwood, 2pm.
Easter Sunday, wreath-laying ceremony at grave of Fian Séamus
Fox, Drumree, Co Meath, 2pm.Assemble gates of cemetery.
Easter Monday, at grave of Vol George McDermott, Ardbraccan,
Co Meath. Assemble at Gates of cemetery.
MONAGHAN
Easter Sunday, Commemoration, Urbleshanny Cemetery,
Scotstown, at grave of Vol Seámus McElwaine 2pm.
NEW YORK
Easter Sunday, 9am, Commemoration at the grave of Joseph Stynes (Tan War Veteran),
Woodlawn Cemetery, Bronx, New York
East 233rd and Webster Ave.
Organised by the National Irish Freedom Committee
more info: www.irishfreedom.net
OFFALY
Easter Sunday, assemble at Church in Bannagher after second
Mass for march to the Republican Cross in memory of Barnes and
McCormack, oration by Seosamh Ó Maoileoin.
ROSCOMMON
Ballinlough, Easter Sunday, 12 noon, parade to IRA Memorial.
Elphin, parade to County Roscommon Memorial after 11.30
Mass.
Easter Sunday, County Commemoration, Lisacul Old
Cemetery, at the grave of Ned Shannon, 3pm.
SLIGO
Sligo Town, Easter Sunday, wreath-laying ceremony,
Republican Plot, Sligo Cemetery.
TIPPERARY
Easter Sunday, Commemoration, Hunger Strike Memorial,
Banba Square, Nenagh, 10am.
TYRONE
See April SAOIRSE.
WATERFORD
Easter Saturday, wreath-laying ceremony at Statue on Quay,
Waterford city, 12 noon.
WESTMEATH
Easter Saturday, assemble Market Square, Mullingar, 3pm for
march to the Republican Plot, Ballyglass Cemetery to mark the
40th Anniversary of the re-internment of Company Capt Peter
Barnes and Staff Capt James McCormack.
Wreaths will also be laid at the grave of Mrs Moynihan in
Ballyglass and at the Republican plots at Kilbeggan, Tyrellspass,
Fore, Meedin and at Athlone over the Easter weekend. For further
information contact Olive at 087-7857341.
Easter Sunday, wreaths will be laid at the memorial Plaque at
Ballycomber, also at the grave of Lieut Matthew Keane at
Mucklagh graveyard.
WEXFORD
Republican Plot, St Ibar’s Cemetery, Crosstown, Easter
Sunday, assemble at Crescent Quay, Wexford at 3pm. Function
after in West Gate Tavern. Mass for all who died for Ireland,
Church of the Immaculate Conception, Rowe Street, 11am.
WICKLOW
Holy Saturday, 3pm, wreath laying Hollywood Cemetery, West
Wicklow
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STAND BY THE ALL-IRELAND REPUBLIC DECLARED EASTER 1916
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Jump To Comment: 3 2 1For the second year in a row you announced that there would be wreath laying at the Republican Plot in Sligo and for the second year in a row there was no ceremony. Why do you mislead people?
"Leadership of the Republican Movement, Easter 2009"
ON the occasion of the 93rd anniversary of the historic Easter Rising of 1916, the Leadership of the Republican Movement extends greetings to Irish people throughout Ireland and in exile around the world who are gathered today at the graves of the patriot dead or at monuments in their honour.
In particular we salute our Republican prisoners in Portlaoise and in Maghaberry, Co Antrim and assure them of our full support. They
are not forgotten and we take this opportunity to endorse the recent action of the Maghaberry prisoners in clearing their wing of non-political prisoners.
This move was never more necessary in view of the circulation of garbled media messages which we believe to be British-inspired. We cherish our reputation and repudiate the smear spread about by the Provo leadership that we are criminal and not political and that it is permissible to inform the British forces about us.
We condemn criminality inside and outside the prisons and deplore the misuse of our name by those who collaborate with the British and urge young people to join the enemy’s occupation forces in Ireland. We uphold as equal partners and comrades “the Felons of Our Land” in the various prisons.
In the year since last Easter the war has been carried to the English enemy. Nobody should be surprised at this development by the Continuity IRA. As long as British occupation forces remain in Ireland that will be the inevitable result of their presence here. The lessons of history are working out again in our time.
In the past year also the Lisbon Treaty which seeks to elevate the EU into a United States of Europe was defeated by popular vote with Republican Sinn Féin to the fore. As was the case with other results not to their liking, the outcome was not acceptable to the politicians and bureaucrats in Brussels and Dublin. We must prepare and work to give them another resounding reverse.
The global financial and economic system is now in crisis and Ireland is not immune from the effects of this. The greed which drives the capitalist
system has enriched a small group and now leaves millions of ordinary people impoverished.
THE Irish Republican Movement has always upheld the sovereignty of the Irish people and the rights of the people against all who would oppress or
exploit them for selfish gain. We reassert this sovereignty here today as we honour the sacred memory of those men and women who died to
uphold that sovereignty.
Cowardly, craven governments may bow down to the might of private capital, often accepting pay-offs and “dig-outs” themselves, but the Irish Republican Movement, as long as it remains true to its principles, will not abandon the common people of Ireland and will seek to lead them to build a democratic socialist system based on justice for all.
Arising from the present crises and in the coming year opportunities may present themselves to seize the initiative. The SAOL NUA document charts a way forward and we must be always ready to act on it.
A type of “two-nation” mentality is being forced on us by the media. Ireland, we are told, is the 26-County State and the Six Occupied Counties make up another place altogether. Together both entities are, according to the official line, “the island of Ireland”. All Ireland is replaced by “all island”.
We reject such misleading descriptions of our historic country and pledge our allegiance once more to our one and only Ireland. Even as we prepared for our Easter ceremonies, internment without trial was re-introduced by the British government in our Six Occupied Counties in the form of 28-day detention. We must be on guard and bend ourselves to our great task.
— Issued by the Leadership of the Republican Movement, Easter 2009