Paddy Moran Commemoration Programme - 8 to 14 March 2011
Mar 4th, 2011 by Conor McCabe
The 90th anniversary of the execution of Patrick Moran, one of ten Volunteers executed in Mountjoy Prison during the War of Independence, is being marked by a series of events in Dun Laoghaire from Tuesday, March 8th to Monday March 14th, 2011.
Events
Tuesday 8th to Monday 14th March 2011 (excluding Saturday& Sunday) EXHIBITION in Dun Laoghaire Town Hall of artifacts and photographs
9a.m. to 5 p.m. daily. It includes some material not previously exhibited. Entry: FREE
Saturday 12th March 2011- Evening of music, songs, ballads associated with Patrick Moran and his times….with Frances Grehan, Flanagan and Liam Purcell. From 8.00p.m. Venure- Dun Laoghaire Club, 3 Eblana Avenue, Dun Laoghaire.
Entry: FREE /ALL WELCOME. RAFFLE FOR Connolly Shoes Strikers (MANDATE).
Monday 14th March 2011 (The anniversary of execution)
7.00p.m. Mass in the Dun Laoghaire Club premises, 3 Eblana Avenue, Dun laoghaire. Celebrant: Monsignor Dan O’Connor PP, Dun Laoghaire.
8.00p.m. LECTURES on the life and times of Patrick Moran, Dun Laoghaire Club, 3 Eblana Avenue, Dub Laoghaire.
SPEAKERS: May Moran, author of Executed for Ireland and niece of Paddy Moran; Padraig Yeates, author of Lockout: Dublin 1913 and forthcoming A City in Wartime: Dublin 1914-1918.
Chairman: John Douglas, General Secretary, MANDATE, trade union.
ALL WELCOME
Bar open from 7.00p.m. in the Dun Laoghaire Club.
Well done to May Moran on an excellent book. i’ll try pop out to the exhibition.