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National Commemorations

There are three National Commemorations, either run by or attended by Óglaigh Náisiúnta Na hÉireann Teoranta, each year. They are:

La Na bhFiann: ONET's National day of Commemoration is held  each year and the event commences with a parade to Arbour Hill church followed by the reading of the proclamation and a wreath laying ceremony at the burial site of the 1916 memorial (Organised by ONET).

This year the commemorations took place on Sunday the 4th of April with the parade forming up outside the Company's HQ, Brú na bhFiann, in North King Street, Dublin

 

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The National Day of Commemoration takes place in the Royal Hospital Kilmainham on the nearest Sunday to 11th July (the date of the signing of the truce in the war of independence, 1921). This Commemoration is run by the Government of Ireland and ONET members are officially invited to the ceremonies.

 

The Niemba Ambush Remembrance in Cathal Brugha Barracks, Dublin, on the nearest Saturday to the actual date of that ambush (8th Nov) in the Congo. (Organised by ONET). The 2010 Niemba Commemoration, which  is commemorates 50 years since the ambush, is planned to take place on Saturday the 6th of November at 12,45 hrs(assembly)in Cathal Brugha Bks where a  a wreath laying ceremony will take place.  This will be followed by a mass at 14.00 hrs in Church, Rathmines.  Refreshments will be served afterwards in the dining complex.


08 November 1960
 
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