THE annual Sean South commemoration takes place in Limerick on Sunday January 4, beginning at 1.45 pm with a march from
Bedford Row to the Republican Plot in Mount St. Lawrence cemetery.
Joe Lynch, secretary of Coiste Cuimneachain Sean Sabhat, the local commemoration committee, said that the parade will assemble in Bedford Row and led by the Thomas Davis Pipe Band from Mallow will parade to the cemetery.
Sean South was killed alongside Fergal O’Hanlon on New Year’s Eve 1957 during an IRA attack on the BrookeboroughRUC barracks.
The commemoration will be held at the grave of Sean South in the Republican Plot, and the speaker will be Tomas O Curraoin from Bearna in Galway, a member of the Ard Comhairle of Republican Sinn Fein.from Corbally, the vice-president of Republican Sinn Fein, who is also the author of Awakening the Spirit of Freedom, a book detailing the night South was killed during IRA Operation Harvest campaign.
