ICA news: Clare federation honours great heroes of Ireland’s 1916 Rising

Reaching out and reaching back were twin themes on the Co Clare ICA agenda last month.

On the last Sunday in April, a granite commemorative plaque honouring the deeds and sacrifices of those who died in 1916 – and commissioned by Corofin Guild – was unveiled in the local church grounds.

The gesture marked what happened 100 years earlier to the day, when a group of Volunteers of the Corofin and District Mid-Western Brigade assembled at Lake Inchiquin and Whitemount and prepared to follow their leaders in the fight for Irish freedom.