Sinn Féin are holding a number of Easter Commemoration events across Galway City and County this bank holiday weekend.
The main event in Galway City will take place at the Liam Mellows Statue in Eyre Square on Saturday, starting at 3pm. The speaker for the event will be Galway West TD Mairéad Farrell.
The main event in the county will be a commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the Tuam Martyrs taking place at 1.30 PM, in the Square.
Chris MacManus MEP will be the main speaker at this commemoration, and it will be followed by the launch of the Galway Roll of Honour book by Louis O’Hara, KAWAS at Canavan’s.
A number of other wreath laying and commemorative events will be taking place across the county over the next few days.
Dé hAoine – Friday – 7/04/2023
- 5:30pm – Wreath Laying at William Freeney’s Grave, Teampall Geal, Athenry
- 6:45pm – Wreath Laying at Fr Michael Griffin’s Grave, Loughrea Cathedral
- 7:30pm – Commemoration at Woodford Cemetery – Speaker Louis O’Hara
Dé Sathain – Saturday – 9/04/2023
- 12pm Wreath laying Castegar monument
- 3pm Easter Commemoration, Eyre Square, Galway. Main Speaker Mairéad Farrell TD
- 6pm: Wreath laying in Kilbannon cemetery for centenary anniversary of Vol. John Higgins of Ballytrasna.
Dé Domhnaigh – Sunday – 9/04/2023
Connemara
- 12pm Easter Commemoration, Teach an Phiarsaigh, Ros Muc. Main Speaker Mairéad Farrell T.D.
- 3pm Wreath laying, Ardbear Cemetery, Clifden
- 4pm Wreath laying, Thomas Whelan Statue, Clifden
5pm Wreath laying, Tooreena Cemetery, Tullycross
East Galway
- 11am Wreath laying, Creagh Cemetery, Ballinasloe
- 12pm Easter Commemoration in Athenry Cemetery – Speaker Louis O’Hara
Dé Luain – Monday – 10/04/2023
- 1:30pm Easter Commemoration, Tuam – assembling in the Square, main speaker Chris MacManus MEP
This year marks the final year of the Decade of Centenaries which has celebrated and explored the history and culture surrounding Ireland’s struggle for indepedence.
It has looked at the build up to the 1916 Rising, the war for Independence that followed, and the descent into Civil War that came of the treaty which founded the Irish Free State.
