Galway Sinn Féin will hold a special commemorative event for Liam Mellows in Athenry tomorrow, Sunday 4 December.
Mellows led the 1916 Rising in Galway, the largest mobilisation of volunteers outside of Dublin in 1916.
He then became a TD for East Galway and director of supplies for the IRA during the War of Independence.
One of the most prominent anti-treaty TDs, he was also among the most effective leaders of the anti-treaty forces.
Liam Mellows was executed in by the Free State on 8 December 1922 with Rory O’Connor, Joe McKelvey and Dick Barrett at Mountjoy Gaol.
The programme for tomorrow’s Comóradh Céad Bliain ar Liam Ó Maoilíosa
| 2.00pm | Assemble Athenry Community Park |
| 2.15pm | Piper-led procession to 1916 Commemorative Garden, passing Liam Mellows’ former residence |
| 2.30pm | Chairperson Louis O’Hara opens |
| 2.40pm | 1916 Proclamation read by Jim Ward |
| 2.45pm | Excerpts of Liam Mellows’ Dáil speech during the treaty debate to be read Claire Kerrane |
| 2.55pm | The song ‘Máirtín Moylan’ sang by Kevin Rohan |
| 3.05pm | Letter from Mellows to his mother read by Laoise Byrne of Ógra Shinn Féin |
| 3.10pm | Galway Roll of Honour read by Cllr Dermot Connolly |
| 3.25pm | Main Oration by Mairéad Farrell TD |
| 3.45pm | Wreath to be laid by family member of Volunteer from 1916: (Family of Willie Freeney, killed in action 1921) |
| 3.50pm | Lowering of the flags & Piper’s lament |
| 4.00pm | Amhrán na bhFiann by Shauna Redmond |
| CLOSE |
