Monday (bank holiday) 1 August 2022
Free tickets (registration required) for Harry Boland Centenary Commemoration, Glasnevin Cemetery, Dublin D11 XA32
For Health & Safety reasons, attendance will be restricted. Consequently, we are obliged to allocate tickets on a first come, first served basis.
“It was a friend of my own that was in prison with me that fired the shot. I’ll never tell the name and don’t try to find out. I forgive him and I want no reprisals. I want to be buried in the grave with Cathal Brugha.”
Deathbed wishes of Harry Boland, 1 August 1922, as recorded by his sister, Kathleen Boland.
Running order
Noon Harry Boland grave, Republican Plot
Recitation of 1916 Proclamation
Musical contribution
Laying of wreath
Graveside Oration: Professor Cathal Brugha, grandson of Terence MacSwiney and Cathal
Brugha
Amhrán na bhFiann
1pm Lunch at Glasnevin Cemetery Visitor Centre
2.15pm History Ireland Hedge School: The Life and Times of Harry Boland
at Glasnevin Cemetery Visitor Centre. Podcast will be freely available.
Panellists:
- Historian & RTÉ News presenter, David McCullagh
- Historian & author, Liz Gillis
- Historian & founder of Michael Collins Heritage Centre, Clonakilty, Co. Cork, Tim Crowley
- Historian, journalist & great grandnephew, Donnacha DeLong
Harry Boland Centenary Commemoration 