James Parle News Today

BY March 1923 the Irish Civil War had been raging for over six months. By now in county Wexford and elsewhere throughout the country the anti-treaty IRA had resorted back to the tactics they knew best from the War of Independence which was guerrilla warfare.

Centenary Commemoration of the Executions of James Parle, John Creane and Patrick Hogan

Wexford County Councils Decade of Centenaries continued today, An Tánaiste, Micheál Martin TD visited Taghmon for a Parle, Crean, Hogan commemoration. The service commenced at 10.15 this morning and continued throughout the afternoon. Letters from the 3 men, written before their execution to their parents, were read at the commemoration ceremony. There was a gun salute and 'the blood stained bandage' was sung. Family members of the three men laid wreaths in their memory. An Tánaist...