Book launch

Book l aunch of ‘Henr y Kelly (18941920): Co. Sligo’s Forgotten Rebel’ will be hosted by Liber Bookshop in O’Connell Street Sligo from 12.00 p.m. until 2 p.m. on Saturday, 21st of October.

Come along to l earn of the stor y of one of the few Sligo soldiers to fight in Easter Week on the side of the rebels. ‘Henr y Kelly (1894-1920): County Sligo’s Forgotten Rebel’ is a short biographical study of Volunteer Henr y Kelly of Ballygawley, an Easter Rebel of 1916, who was executed by an RIC Auxiliar y Raid on the Banba Hall, Dublin on the 17th of October, 1920, during the War of Independence.

Proceeds of the book will go towards the resurfacing of Henr y’s weathered headstone in Kilross Cemeter y, Ballygawley and towards an application for posthumous IR A medals due to him and his next of kin.