Annual Edentubber Commemoration takes place this Sunday

The 66th Anniversary of the Edentubber Martyrs takes place this Sunday 12 November at 2:30PM at the Edentubber Memorial. The event will be chaired by Cllr Antóin Watters and the main speaker will be Pauline Tully TD.

Each year Republicans from all over Ireland gather to honour the men who gave their lives for Irish Freedom. On Monday 11th November 1957, five republicans were killed in an explosion which demolished a small cottage at the foot of Edentubber Mountain in County Louth.

The five were; Volunteers George Keegan, Paul Smith, Oliver Craven, Patrick Parle and republican Michael Watters. The men became known as the Edentubber Martyrs. 

At their funerals in St Patrick's Cemetery, John Joe McGirl, Sinn Féin TD for Sligo/Leitrim, delivered the graveside oration stating:

"The tragedy which brought to a sudden end the lives of five great Irishmen is a tragedy of the Irish nation, the tragedy of an Ireland that is unfree and divided. These men came from the North and the South to join together to end the tragedy of our nation and our people.”