Petition
Current Details
| Reference Number: | P00036/23 |
| Status: | Deliberations By Committee |
| Name of Petitioner: | Mr. Aidan Lambert |
| Petition Title: | Invincibles Reinterment Campaign |
| Submitted By: | Corporate Body |
| Corporate Name: | National Graves Association |
| Petition Text: | The National Graves Association is requesting that this government oblige the Office of Public Works to carry out the necessary excavation works to recover the remains of Joseph Brady, Daniel Curley, Michael Fagan, Thomas Caffrey and Timothy Kelly, in what is commonly known as the Invincibles Yard at Kilmainham Gaol. The bodies of these five members of the Irish National Invincibles lie beneath the paving slabs of the yard where they were executed in 1883 for their part in the Phoenix Park assassinations. The families of the five men are represented by the National Graves Association and the wish of the families is for their relatives to be exhumed from Kilmainham Gaol and reinterred in consecrated ground at Glasnevin Cemetery.
The following is a list of councils supporting the Invincibles Reinterment Campaign.
Dublin City Council, Galway County Council, Westmeath County Council, Wexford County Council, Cork City Council, Tipperary County Council, Louth County Council, Sligo County Council, Cavan County Council, Carlow County Council, Clare County Council, Mid Ulster District Council, Laois County Council, Limerick City & County Council, Fingal County Council, Cork County Council, Mayo County Council, Monaghan County Council, South Dublin County Council, Derry City & Strabane District Council, Waterford County Council, Fermanagh & Omagh District Council, Dún Laoighaire – Rathdown County Council, Kildare County Council, Donegal County Council, Kerry County Council, Meath County Council and Wicklow County Council. |
Published: 14 Dec 2023 17:02:45
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