Remembering Tomas Ceannt: soldier, patriot, revolutionary
Remembering Tomas Ceannt: soldier, patriot, revolutionary

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By Gerry Adams (for Leargas)

On a bright May morning in 2000 I spoke at the unveiling of a memorial in Cork City to the 1916 patriot Tomas Ceannt at Ceannt railway station. The Ceannt Memorial had been commissioned and erected by a committee of railway workers and was unveiled by Kathleen Ceannt, a niece of Tomas Ceannt.

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