Tralee Memorial Hall rededicated to Ashe

Ashe Memorial Hall, Tralee, one of the first buildings to be constructed after Independence, has been rededicated to the memory of the patriot Thomas Ashe.

A teacher from Lispole near Anascaul, west Kerry, Ashe was commandant of the Fingal Battalion of the volunteers which mobilised during the Easter Rising in north Dublin and Meath.

He led his unit at the Battle of Ashbourne, and was the last of the 1916 leaders to surrender, doing so on April 29, 1916.