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TAKING place in Killarney this morning is the opening of a Community Garden of Remembrance. The committee of St Patrick’s Festival Cill Áirne is organising the grand opening, which takes place in the area near the courthouse at 11am.
The garden will have three elements – an engraved life-size replica of the 1916 Proclamation, a flagpole with the Tricolour, and seven trees to represent the seven signatories of the Proclamation.
The MC for the event will be Mícheál Ó Muircheartaigh and a number of local schools will participate.
“This is a great addition to Killarney. We hope it will be a nice place for people to visit in this historic year and for the next 100 years,” said Helen Sheehan of the St Patrick’s Festival Cill Áirne committee.
The 1916 Gardens of Remembrance Ireland and her diaspora is a Glór na Cásca Infinitive with the objective of commemorating the Easter Rising, celebrating and honouring the lives of those who signed the Proclamation and those who fought in the cause of Irish freedom.
Glór na Cásca includes representatives from all political parties and groups as well as trade union, cultural and Irish language representatives and descendants of the men and women who participated in the Rising.
“These gardens will also ensure public engagement on a local and global level fore the commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the Easter Rising,” said Senator Mark Daly, Oireachtas member of Glór na Cásca.
 

 
A Community Garden of Remembrance is opening in the area near Killarney Courthouse.