VIDEO: O’ Donovan Rossa Centenary a moving and memorable tributes to son of Cork

Gabriel Doherty offers a personal reflection on the commemorative events marking the centenary of O’Donovan Rossa’s funeral

HAVING been closely involved over the last year in the planning and delivery of the programme of events in West Cork over the last seven weeks to mark the centenary of the death and burial of the Cork Fenian, Jeremiah O’Donovan Rossa, I am in no position to offer an objective assessment of the success or failure of that commemorative programme.

I am simply too close to the subject. What follows, therefore, is an entirely personal and completely subjective view on that programme, which also featured a large number of commemorative events in Dublin to mark the exact centenary of his burial, of which the State commemorative event in Glasnevin on Saturday morning was clearly the most significant.