Events in August 2015
16 August 2015: Annual Collins-Griffith commemoration and Roger Casement lecture, Glasnevin Cemetery, Dublin 11
On Sunday 16 August 2015 Glasnevin Trust hosted the annual Collins-Griffith commemoration, marking the deaths of both Arthur Griffith and Michael Collins in August 1922. It was followed by the annual Roger Casement Lecture. Each year, in mid-August, the Collins-Griffith Commemoration Society organises the ceremony at Glasnevin Cemetery to commemorate the lives and legacies of two…
Read More9 August 2015: Service of remembrance for Gallipoli campaign, Lisburn Cathedral, County Antrim
On Sunday 9 August the Northern Ireland World War One Centenary Committee held a service in Lisburn Cathedral on Sunday 9 August at 3pm to commemorate the Gallipoli campaign of 1915. Representatives of the Northern Ireland Executive and the Irish and Southern Irish Government attended, as did the High Commissioners of Australia and New Zealand and the…
Read More3 August 2015: Victoria Cross Centenary ceremony of remembrance, Castletown Geoghegan, Co. Westmeath
On Monday 3 August 2015 a commemorative ceremony was held in Castletown Geoghegan, County Westmeath to remember the awarding of a Victoria Cross to Captain George Arthur Boyd Rochfort. The citation was originally awarded for conspicuous bravery on the Western Front, when on 3 August 1915 Boyd-Rochefort picked up a German trench mortar bomb that had landed…
Read More1 August 2015: Opening of ‘Funeral of O’Donovan Rossa’ exhibition, Dublin City Hall
On 1 August 2015 a new exhibition opened in Dublin City Hall marks 100 years since the funeral of Jeremiah O’Donovan Rossa, the Fenian leader and revolutionary who lay in state in City Hall for four days prior to his funeral on 1 August 1915. ‘The Funeral of O’Donovan Rossa’ exhibition contains images, newspaper articles and…
Read More1 August 2015: Centenary commemoration of the funeral of Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa, Glasnevin Cemetery, Dublin 11
On Saturday 1 August 2015 Glasnevin Cemetery hosted the state ceremony commemorating the centenary of the funeral of the Fenian Jeremiah O’Donovan Rossa (1831-1915). This also marked the beginning of the official centenary programme to commemorate the Easter Rising of 1916. Born in Rosscarbery, Co. Cork, O’Donovan Rossa became a key member of the Irish Republican…
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