Well known historian will be the guest speaker at Tipperary commemoration

On Saturday next the 10 th of August a commemoration will be held to honour Sean Hogan’s

‘Flying Column’, the local Active Service Unit of the IRA,and the women of the ‘Safe houses’, who

when terror stalked our land, they stood against tyranny and fought the British out of Tipperary.

Onee of Irelands top historians,Dr.Tomas Mac Conmara will give the oration this

year.Dr Mac Conmara has written extensively on this period and two of his six books include ‘The

time of the Tans’ and ‘The Scarriff Martyrs’. He is a regular on the ‘Today Show’ and is an award

winning oral Historian. The Commemoration will begin at 2.30 with a march following part of the

route Sean Hogan, Dan Breen and the ‘Flying Column’ took all those years ago. It is fascinating that

today over 100 years later the same boithrins and much of the landscape has not changed and you

are ‘walking in the footsteps’ of the ‘Flying Column’ it is a ‘Landscape of Revolution’ and it is a

unique experience to stand where those men passed all those years ago. This event is non political

and all are welcome.Beir bua.