Virtual events and book launch will mark the centenary of the Mourne Abbey ambush
While Covid restrictions have had a huge impact on organised events since last March, communities have still been recognising the events of a century ago that have shaped the Ireland that we know today. Over the weekend of Feb 13 the community in Mourne Abbey will recall one such event, an ambush that was to cost the lives of six IRA volunteers whose sacrifice is enshrined on a monument at the ambush site. On February 15, 1921 more than 50 volunteers under Commandant Jack Cunningham, 43 o...
Source: independent.ie