O’DONOVAN Rossa GAC are set to hold a series of events to mark the centenary of the execution of club founder, Leiutenant General Joe McKelvey, who was executed by the Free State government on 8 December 1922 during the Irish Civil War.
Dick Barrett, Joe McKelvey, Liam Mellows and Rory O’Connor were shot the next day, Dec. 8, 1922, at 8 a.m., explicitly as a reprisal for Sean Hales’s death, and as a warning.