Cork marks centenary since burning by British forces
Updated / Saturday, 12 Dec 2020
13:39
Taoiseach Micheál Martin has urged people not to look back on the past with rose-tinted glasses but through the measured eye of the discipline of history .
Mr Martin was speaking at a commemoration yesterday evening to mark the 100th anniversary of the burning of Cork by British forces on the night of 11 December 1920.
He said it was important that Irish people remember the momentous events that occurred in Cork City and County during the struggle for freedom but that they also pay homage to the revolutionary generation who helped make Ireland one of the world s oldest continuous democracies.