Tuam Martyrs Commemoration 2008
Liam Mellows 32CSM Galway, are pleased to announce a solidarity commemoration which will take place on Sunday 20th July 2008. Assemble at 1:30p.m. at the 1916 Monument on Bishop Street, Tuam, Co. Galway (Supervalu Car Park) and march to the Old Workhouse Monument in Dublin Road, Tuam, where six brave volunteers were executed by Free State Forces in April 1923. The six men executed, five from Galway and one from Mayo, were shot by a free state firing squad in the old workhouse in Tuam, Co. Galway on the 11th April 1923 towards the end of the civil war in Connaught.
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