On a rainy autumn night, preliminary details of a new venture arising from the rising of 1798 were made public at a reception in the Parkview Hotel. The three-day ‘Festival of Remembrance’ will take place over the last weekend of May, culminating with a re-enactment of the battle of Newtownmountkennedy on the Sunday afternoon. The star turn of the reception hosted by the local tidy towns committee was Professor Ruán O’Donnell, a man in his element talking about the events of 225 years ago.
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