Post by Sinn Féin Poblachtach - Cork on Oct 28, 2007 15:48:00 GMT
‘Daly’s sacrifice still inspires us’
28 Deireadh Fómhair/October 2007
Ó Brádaigh address at Tyrellspass, Co Westmeath
“The lesson to be learned from the sacrifice of James Daly and his comrades in the Connaught Rangers mutiny in India in 1920 was that Irish people throughout the world would be prepared to rally to the national cause in the context of an all-out struggle for Irish freedom and independence,” said Ruairí Ó Brádaigh, President of Republican Sinn Féin, at a commemoration at the grave of James Daly in Tyrellspass, Co Westmeath, on Sunday, October 28.
A further lesson was that James Daly’s comrades, who were not executed, were sent back to England to serve long terms of penal servitude and were not included in the general amnesty which followed the Treaty of Surrender in 1921.
It took a prolonged agitation until 1923 to secure their release from prison. The bodies of Daly and his comrades Patrick Smythe and Peter Sears were not given over to their families until 1970 when the National Graves Association re-interred them with every honour, Daly in Tyrellspass and the other two in the Republican Plot, Glasnevin Cemetery, Dublin.
Máire Drumm, Vice-President of Republican Sinn Féin at the time, unveiled a monument at James Daly’s grave in 1974. On her way from Tyrellspass that evening she was arrested and jailed for a speech she had made in Galway but the charge was found to be baseless.
Following close on the hunger strike death of Terence Mac Swiney and the execution of Kevin Barry, James Daly’s sacrifice on November 2, 1920 has continued to inspire those striving to end English rule in Ireland, a task that has yet to be completed, the speaker concluded.
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28 Deireadh Fómhair/October 2007
Ó Brádaigh address at Tyrellspass, Co Westmeath
“The lesson to be learned from the sacrifice of James Daly and his comrades in the Connaught Rangers mutiny in India in 1920 was that Irish people throughout the world would be prepared to rally to the national cause in the context of an all-out struggle for Irish freedom and independence,” said Ruairí Ó Brádaigh, President of Republican Sinn Féin, at a commemoration at the grave of James Daly in Tyrellspass, Co Westmeath, on Sunday, October 28.
A further lesson was that James Daly’s comrades, who were not executed, were sent back to England to serve long terms of penal servitude and were not included in the general amnesty which followed the Treaty of Surrender in 1921.
It took a prolonged agitation until 1923 to secure their release from prison. The bodies of Daly and his comrades Patrick Smythe and Peter Sears were not given over to their families until 1970 when the National Graves Association re-interred them with every honour, Daly in Tyrellspass and the other two in the Republican Plot, Glasnevin Cemetery, Dublin.
Máire Drumm, Vice-President of Republican Sinn Féin at the time, unveiled a monument at James Daly’s grave in 1974. On her way from Tyrellspass that evening she was arrested and jailed for a speech she had made in Galway but the charge was found to be baseless.
Following close on the hunger strike death of Terence Mac Swiney and the execution of Kevin Barry, James Daly’s sacrifice on November 2, 1920 has continued to inspire those striving to end English rule in Ireland, a task that has yet to be completed, the speaker concluded.
Sinn Féin Poblachtach
Related links: www.rsfcork.com
saoirse.21.forumer.com/index.php