*Tomás Mac Conmara. Photograph: Eamon Ward A TREE planting ceremony will take place in Tuamgraney as the East Clare Memorial Committee join forces with East Clare for Palestine.
*Sinn Féin supporters celebrate. Photograph: Joe Buckley SINN Féin’s first councillor in the Ennis MD has promised to bring “a socialist republican brand of councillor” to the local authority.
A COMMEMORATION to mark the fiftieth anniversary of veteran Republic, Martin Whyte takes place at his graveside in Lisdoonvarna this Sunday.
TUAMGRANEY HISTORIAN, Dr Tomás Mac Conmara had the distinction of delivering the annual lecture of the Oral History Network of Ireland this year.
Pictured marking the 175th anniversary of the birth of Michael Cusack by planting an ash tree outside the cottage at the Michael Cusack Centre in Carron, County Clare, L-R: Cllr. Ann Norton (Leas Cathaoirleach of Clare County Council), Larry McCarthy (Uachtarán Chumann Lúthchleas Gael), Dónal Ó hAiniféin (Chair of the Board of Michael Cusack Centre), …
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EASTER SUNDAY marks the commencement of the East Clare Memorial Committee’s second century of commemorations.
WAR and murder in East Clare is evoked in Tomás Mac Conmara’s latest book, The Scariff Martyrs a project that was seventeen years in the making.
A centenary commemoration of the Currakyle Ambush is to take place in Flagmount on Friday.
*Photograph: Eamon Ward Award-winning East Clare oral historian, Tomás Mac Conmara is to release his latest book this coming September.
*Members of the East Clare Memorial Committee at the commemoration to Jim Grogan. A poignant ceremony was held by the East Clare Memorial Committee in the townland of Core, Feakle last Tuesday to commemorate the last victim of the Irish War of Independence in the county, Jim ‘Birdie’ Grogan.
