Memorial Tower to General Liam Lynch
IRISH REPUBLICAN HERO United Press Association.—Ey Electric Telegraph.—Copyright. LONDON, April 7. Despite fears of disturbance complete orderliness attended the greatest Republican demonstration in Southern Ireland since tho early Sinn Fein days on the occasion of tho unveiling on the historic Knockmealdown Mountains, near Clonmel, of a memorial round tower, 60 feet high, to General Liam Lynch, who died of wounds a week after a night skirmish with the Free State Army on this hilltop in 1923. Lynch, though originally a clerk, developed marked strategic ability and was one of tho heroes of tho Republican movement under do Valera. The Government, as a precaution, drafted strong forces of police to the scene, to which members of tho Republican Army travelled from all parts of Ireland by special trains and hundreds of buses. Twenty thousand, including women and children, trudged live miles up mountain tracks in a heavy downpour. A Limerick octogenarian, James Ryan, was among the first to reach the summit. Tho concourso stood bareheaded during an impressive unveiling ceremony.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 60, Issue 84, 10 April 1935, Page 10
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