Honouring 1916 Heroes

dublin | history and heritage | event notice Wednesday March 31, 2010 14:29 by Terry Fagan - North Inner City Folklore Project folklore at eircom dot net

Commemoration Easter Monday

The North Inner City Folklore Project is to re-enact the hoisting of the Green Flag outside Liberty Hall on Palm Sunday by the Citizen Army. We will also unveil a plaque to Captain Sean Connolly of the Citizen Army who was killed on the roof of the City Hall at Sean McDermott Street.

North Inner City Folklore Project, Dublin
C/o ICRG 57 Amiens Street, Dublin 1. Telephone 087 921 0673

On Easter Monday the 5th April 2010 the commemoration will take the following forms:-

1 At Liberty Hall, 12 noon, a pageant will take place which will include the unfurling of the flag which the Citizen Army hoisted a week before the Rising. On that occasion a young inner city girl, Molly O Reilly from Gardiner Street was given the honour by James Connolly. A young girl related to Molly O Reilly, will receive the flag from James Connolly-Herron a great grandson of James Connolly and re-enact the hoisting of the flag. They will be accompanied by a colour party dressed in the uniforms of Cumann na mBan and the Citizen Army.

2 The assembled gathering, including relatives of the 1916 leaders, will then march to Sean McDermott Street led by pipers and a colour party. At 58/59 Sean McDermott, Lower where the house of Captain Sean Connolly once stood a plaque will be unveiled to his memory and also to celebrate the memory of Molly O Reilly. Captain Sean Connolly, a member of the Citizen Army, was killed in action on the roof of City Hall on Easter Monday. Sean’s four brothers and his sister also took part in the 1916 Rising

3 After the ceremony a photographic exhibition of Ireland’s fight for independence 1916 – 1923 will be held in the nearby Community Hall at Killarney Court.

North Inner City Folklore Project, Dublin
C/o ICRG 57 Amiens Street, Dublin 1.

Terry Fagan @ 087 9210673 Tom Redmond @ 8557207