President Michael D. Higgins had been expected to come to Tubbercurry this coming Monday to commemorate the centenary of the a mutiny in India by members of the Connaught Rangers, among them four Sligomen.
They were James Gorman, Jack Scanlon, Martin Conlon and Patrick Dyer.
Monday also marks the centenary of the execution of another member of the Connaught Rangers, James Daly, from Westmeath.
The mutiny occurred on 28 June 1920 when a company of the Connaught Rangers stationed at Jullundur on the plains of the Punjab refused to perform their military duties as a protest against the activities of the British Army in Ireland.
Plans for the commemoration in Tubbercurry involving President Higgins have now had to be deferred on two occasions because of the Covid-19 restrictions.
One of the organisers of the event is Mary Henry, a grand-daugher of James Gorman and secretary of the Connaught Rangers Memorial Group.
She has been telling Ocean FM News what’s the latest.
However, there will be an event on this Monday, which marks the centenary of the execution of James Daly, as Mary Henry explains.
