Defence Forces remember Kilworth camp handover 100 years on

The Defence Forces are holding centenary commemorations of handovers at 13 other camps this year

Former UN and ONE members at the centenary commemoration of the British handing over of Kilworth camp to the Irish forces. Picture: Eddie O'Hare

A commemoration has been held exactly 100 years to the day to mark the handover by the British of the first of their major camps to Irish Forces.

It was a poignant moment for local troops led by Commandant Tadgh O'Donoghue when they recreated the 1922 march by Irish soldiers into Kilworth Camp, Co. Cork, and for relatives of the man it was named in honour of some 44 years later.