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Charlie Flanagan TD delivering the oration at the Portlaoise War Memorial during the Remembrance Day Ceremony in the Memorial Park, Ridge Road in 2012. Photo:Tim Keane.
People who died in World War One and other conflicts around the world will be remembered at events in Laois in November.
A remembrance ceremony for those who died in World War One and in subsequent conflicts across the globe will be held on Sunday, November 2023 in Portlaoise.
A service of remembrance will be conducted in St Peter's Church of Ireland at 10:45 am and this will be followed by a wreath-laying ceremony at the War Memorial Millview, Portlaoise at 12:00 with members of the public invited to attend.
Fine Gael's Laois Offaly TD and former Minister Charlie Flanagan will give a speech at the war memorial. He has attended the annual event which has taken place in the town for many years.
He posted a simple message on Armistice Day, November 11, 2023 in memory of those who have died: ‘We remember them’. An estimated 50,000 Irish fought in the First World War.
Many signed up from Laois, then Queens County, to fight in what is termed 'The Great War'. Armistice Day was marked with ceremonies in the county well after independence in towns around Laois.
The Portlaoise ceremony is the only official marking of the end of the 1914-18 war and 'the fallen'.
Terry Dunne, Laois Historian-in-Residence, with Laois Local Studies writes that he Leinster Express began its local round-up of remembrance events in November 1928 with a "cosmopolitan vision".
“In every city, town and remote hamlet in the British Isles, and in far distant places in the Empire where Britons dwell, homage was paid on Sunday to those who laid down their lives in the Great War. . . . . The ceremony at the Cenotaph, where the King led his people in the tribute to those who had fallen, was broadcast for the first time.”
Terry writes that the paper went on to detail Remembrance Sunday, as it is now known, in Maryborough, Abbeyleix, Mountmellick, Mountrath, Portarlington, Coolbanagher and Rathdowney, as well as in the adjacent counties.
Read Terry's full article HERE.
The 2023 commemoration is supported by Laois County Council.
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