Sligo 1916 Commemoration Ceremony

sligo | rights, freedoms and repression | event notice Tuesday April 11, 2006 15:07 by John Dunne - Connolly Forum

The former Mayor of Sligo, Councillor Declan Bree will deliver the oration at this years Annual 1916 Commemoration ceremony which takes place at the Republican Plot in Sligo cemetery on Easter Sunday at 12 Noon

The event which is being held under the auspices of the Connolly Forum is one of a number of activities that the forum is organising to mark the 90th anniversary of the 1916 Rising.

Those attending the ceremony are asked to assemble at Cairns Drive at 11.50. on Easter Sunday morning.

The Connolly Forum is also holding a wreath laying ceremony in Kicoleman Cemetery, Ballaghaderreen, on Easter Monday at the grave of William Partridge. Born in Sligo in 1874, Partridge became a committed labour and trade union activist and served as a Captain in the Irish Citizen Army in the College of Surgeons in 1916.