Thomas Ashe will be honoured at Duleek event

DULEEK 1916-1981 Monument

Committee will host a commemoration on Saturday 23rd

SeptemberSe in Duleek to remember be the 100th anniversary of the death on hunger strike of

ThomasTh Ashe (right).

The event will commence at 4pm with a march to the hungerhu strike monument on

StationSta Road with a re-enactment me by the Irish Citizen Army on the way.

Spokesperson for the monument me committee Thomas Lynch saidsai this will be a very special eventev where the leader of the

“BBattle of Ashbourne” during the Easter rising in 1916 Thomas Ashe will be remembered on the 100th anniversary of his death on hunger strike on 25 25th September 1917.

Thomas Ashe was born in Kinard East, Lispole, Dingle Co,Co Kerry. He was a member of the Gaelic League, the Irish Republican Brotherhood (IRB) and a founding member of the Irish Volunteers. He went on to become principal of Corduff National School in Lusk Co, Dublin.

He spent his last years before his death teaching children in Lusk, where he founded the award-winning Lusk Black Raven Pipe Band as well as Round Towers Lusk.

A fundraising event by the monument committee will follow the commemoration in the Greyhound Bar Duleek with a book launch “The Truth Will Out” by Paul McGlinchey.

This is a non-party political event and all are welcome to attend.