President Higgins to visit Tubbercurry tomorrow for centenary of Connaught Rangers mutiny
The President, Michael D. Higgins, is to visit Tubbercurry in south Sligo tomorrow to attend the centenary commemoration of the Connaught Rangers mutiny in India. The ceremony will include the unveiling of an inscribed monument in Wolfe Tone Square, in the centre of Tubbercurry, in memory of four Sligo men…
Connaught Rangers commemoration in Tubbercurry deferred to June next year
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…
Launch of Centenary marking Connaught Rangers mutiny taking place in Sligo today
The launch of the Centenary marking the Connaught Rangers Mutiny is taking place in Sligo at 1pm today. The Rangers were a British regiment and remained in service until the formation of the Irish Free State in 1922. Two years previously in the summer of 1920, men from the regiment…