THE commemoration of the Drumboe Martyrs a century after their executions has continued in Donegal this weekend.
Tuesday marks 100 years since Sean Larkin, Timothy O’Sullivan, Daniel Enright and Charles Daly were shot dead after being found guilty by court martial of being jointly in possession of rifles, revolvers and quantities of ammunition including bombs.
Donegal has been marking the killings and over the weekend there were a number of events held, commencing on Saturday with a ‘Spring School’ in the Villa Rose Hotel.
Two further events were scheduled for this afternoon, one of them the unveiling of a memorial in Dunlewey, attended by relatives of those caught.
The Drumboe Martyrs Commemoration Committee also invited people to Drumboe Castle to remember the four men.
As in every year since 1924 the Commemoration Committee walked to the execution site at Drumboe Woods. The oration there was by former republican prisoner John McElhinney.
On the anniversary itself, March 14, there will be a torchlight procession through Stranorlar. The annual Easter commemoration will be on April 9.
See tomorrow’s Donegal News for further coverage of events.
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