Plans to link events marking 1916 with 1848 leader’s birth

Plans have been put in train to link events to commemorate the Waterford birth of 1848 leader and subsequent American Civil War veteran Thomas Francis Meagher and the 1916 centenary commemorations.

The main events will take place from March 4-7 next year and a full programme is being put in place by a 2016 Tricolour Celebration Committee in Waterford.

Meagher was born at the Granville Hotel in Waterford city on August 3, 1823, and later became an Irish nationalist and leader of the Young Irelanders.