SINN FEIN HERO

Gisborne Times, Volume LXXXII, Issue 12254, 9 April 1935, Page 5

SINN FEIN HERO

MEMORIAL TO GENERAL' LYNCH. GREATEST DEMONSTRATION OF MODERN DA AH. 20,900 ASCENT) FIVE AITLES HILL JN RAIN. tU.P.A. by Elec. Tel. Copyright.) LONDON, April 7. Despite fear's of a disturbance/ complete orderliness attended the greatest Republican demonstration in southern Ireland since the early Seiff Fein days, on the occasion of the nnvaijing in the historic- Knockmealdown mountains/ neaa: Clonmel, of a memorial round tower, 60'f.t hish;. to General Liam Lynch. who died of wounds a week after a, night skirmish by the Free State army on this hilltop 'in 1923. General Lynch, though originally a clerk, developed marked strategic ability* and was one °f the heroes ol the Republican movement under Air do V aleraThe Government, c.s a, precaution 1 , drafted strong forces of police to the scene, whither members of the Republican Army travelled (from all parts of Ireland in, special trains and hundreds of buses. - ; Twenty thousand: people, including women.-,arid, .children, trudged five miles'up mountain tracks in a heavy dOiWnpdtir. r ;A Limerick octogenarian Air James Ryan;, iwas ainong the first to reach, the summit. The concourse stood' bareheaded during the impressive unvciling ceremonv