This Sunday marks the 100th anniversary of the murder of Tom and John O’Connor-Scarteen.
The brothers were National Army Officers in 1922, who’d participated in the Kenmare landings just days before their deaths.
The landings were a key moment in the Irish Civil War and in the break-up of the Munster Republic, which was then held by anti-treaty forces.
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Fine Gael councillor Patrick O’Connor Scarteen is the grand-nephew of Tom and John.
A commemoration will take place on Sunday, in the old Kenmare cemetery, near Sheen falls Lodge, at 1.30pm; people are being urged to arrive early.
Cllr Patrick O’Connor Scarteen says it’s important to remember the events of the past without bitterness:
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