A commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the Ballyseedy atrocity will take place in Castleisland at the Republican Graves in Pembroke’s side of Kilbanivane Cemetery on the coming Tuesday evening at 6pm with Mass in the local parish church to follow at 7pm.
Ballyseedy lodged itself in Irish history books when nine IRA prisoners were taken in shackles from Ballymullen Barracks in Tralee and driven out the road towards Castleisland on Wednesday evening March 7th 1923 where they were bound to a mine and blown up.
Stephen Fuller from Kilflynn was miraculously blown clear and somehow got away in the mayhem that followed.
His fellow prisoners: Pat Hartnett from Listowel; Patrick Buckley from Scartaglin; George O’Shea and Tim Tuomey from Kilflynn; John O’Connor from Innishannon, Co Cork; John Daly and Michael O’Connell from Castleisland and James Walsh of Churchill were all killed in one of the most barbaric acts of the civil war.
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