A stark reminder of how innocent people were killed in the War of Independence was observed in Knocknagee in recent days with the 100-year commemoration of the shooting of teenager Michael John Kelleher.
The young lad was playing hurling in the company of friends when he was gunned down by a Crown forces convoy. His death on Sunday, February 6, 1921, earned fitting memory at two dignified ceremonies hosted at the field of the atrocity and in Knocknagree village last weekend. Historian Aogáin Ó hÍarlaithe referred to the event as one of the darkest and saddest events in the history of Knocknagree at Sylvester Cronin s field, today owned by Mike and Valerie Doyle.
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