The Castleisland Sinn Féin Cumann will hold a wreath laying ceremony at the Republican plot in Kilbanivane cemetery Castleisland on Tuesday evening September 27th. at 7pm. Bertie was murdered by free state forces in Killarney while being held prisoner on September 19th 1922. He was one of the earliest Republican casualties of the civil war.…
On a recent Monday evening the Castleisland Sinn Fein Cumann held its annual commemoration at the monument on Rice’s Height on the Cordal Road. This was to remember and honour the three men who died there 101 years ago on July 10th. 1921 in a battle with crown forces. The men: Jack Prendiville, Richard Shanahan…
This Sunday, July 10th marks, to the day, the 101st anniversary of one of the most intense and fiercest battles of the War of Independence, which was fought on the streets, lanes, back yards and fields around Castleisland from 7:15pm on this day in 1921. The bloody event will be commemorated at the Republican monument…
Tributes were paid and wreaths laid in memory of Richard Shanahan, Castleisland; Jack Prendiville, Cordal and Jack Flynn, Gortatlea on the centenary of their deaths in a gun battle with British forces on curfew patrol in Castleisland on Sunday evening of July 10th. 1921. There were two separate but intertwining ceremonies in Castleisland on Saturday…
An evening of remembrance for the men of the locality who gave all they had, including their lives, for the cause of freedom will be held in two separate events here in Castleisland on Saturday evening, July 10th. The first is at 7pm when the Castleisland Sinn Féin Cumann will hold its annual commemoration to…
