MEMORY OF THE PAST

Evening Post, Volume CXIX, Issue 94, 22 April 1935, Page 8

MEMORY OF THE PAST

REPUBLICAN FLAG UP .

I.R.A. CELEBRATIONS

SHOTS FIRED IN ULSTER

Onlted l'ress Association—By Electric tel* graph—CopyrlEht (Received April 22, 2 p.m.) DUBLIN, April 21. The Easter celebrations were orderly.

The Republican Mag flew from the Post Office, where Mr. dc Valera, President of the Irish Free State, unveiled a statue in commemoration of the victims of the 1916 rising. He said that the time to erect a proud monument to the inspirers of the Republican movement had not yet arrived, but Ireland would not content herself with anything less than independence. Subsequently Mr. de Valera reviewed a parade of 6500 Free State soldiers and volunteers. Many of the participants fought in 1916. After the review, from which Mr. de Valera departed with a cavalry escort, detachments of the Republican Army, headed by bands, marched in a downpour of rain to the Glasnevin Cemetery, where they paid homage to the'graves of the 1916 victims. 1 Two thousand- police and civic guards maintained order in the streets. FUGITIVE CHIEF OF STAFF REAPPEARS. Maurice Twomey, chief of staff of the Republican Army, who has recently been in hiding, reappeared and spoke at Glasnevin, surrounded by a bodyguard. He escaped without being pursued. , A man named Thomas Green was arrested at Newry Cemetery when attempting to read a Republican Army manifesto. Thousands of Republicans quietly witnessed the unveiling of a memorial at Rosarea to four Republicans shot ir the civil war of 1923.