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February 25, 2008
LEINSTER LEADER ADVERTS 1935 - including unveiling of CIVIL WAR MONUMENT MARKET SQUARE
Two adverts from the pages of the Leinster Leader of 1935 for events for Easter Sunday including the unveiling of the Civil War Monument on the Market Square in Kildare TownTWO RELATED ARTICLES ON THIS WEBSITE
July 18, 2005
Large gathering of Republicans on the
Footnote by Mario Corrigan: The clergy had played a pivotal role in the development of Kildare Town and in the local organisations and the events arranged by the people of the town. In 1935 the monument to the seven men executed in the civil war was unveiled on the Market Square and the invited guest speaker was also a cleric. His speech was not of development and co-operation but a highly charged political tirade against the opponents of republicans and the I.R.A. It reminds us of the political atmosphere of the time and also how tensions in the local community remained high long after the Civil War. Even when I was growing up in the seventies I remember that you were told not to ask about that particular incident. A lecture given by Adrian Mullowney a couple of years ago in the C.Y.M.S. hall, for the local Historical Society, was probably the first time the matter had ever been publicly discussed in the town in 80 years or more.
January 05, 2007
Civil War Memories and Anecdotes
Two adverts from the pages of the Leinster Leader of 1935 for events for Easter Sunday including the unveiling of the Civil War Monument on the Market Square in Kildare Town
Posted by mariocorrigan at February 25, 2008 08:41 PM