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Roscommon IRA statue
By Seán | July 25th, 2007 |
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Some time ago I wrote a post on Athlone’s IRA Statue. In my limited experience such a thing is quite rare, certainly at the centre of a major town like Athlone. Well, I was driving north through County Roscommon recently and came across the statue you see there to your left. I simply had to [...]
Athlone IRA Statue Easter Remembrance
By Seán | April 19th, 2007 | 1 Comment »
It’s that time of year again when flowers start appearing at the foot of Athlone’s IRA statue.
For those who missed my initial post on the statue, this is a revolutionary-era statue erected in memory of those who died in the war of independence in 1916.
Easter and the commemoration of The Easter Rising is probably the [...]
