More than 800 mostly working class young men died fighting for the pro-treaty side; for the first time a full roll of honour is available to the public
Taoiseach Leo Varadkar, Tánaiste Micheál Martin and Defence Forces Chief of Staff Lieut Gen Seán Clancy joined descendants of the National Army dead for the unveiling, which is one of the last big events of the Decade of Centenaries marking the foundation of the State.
The National Army dead were all men, mainly working class and mostly unmarried. Some had experience fighting in the War of Independence, the Easter Rising or with the British army during the first World War but most were military novices. They were mainly aged in their early 20s but some were much younger. Gerald McKenna was 16 when he was killed alongside his 18-year-old brother Patrick in Co Cork a month after joining up.
The dead “gave their lives in the service of the state during the tragic and critical period at the foundation of our democracy”, said Lieut Gen Clancy, adding that they had been forgotten “for far too long.” “Whatever the often very legitimate reasons our forebears may have had for forgetting in the intervening 100 years, I think it’s appropriate now that I, as a 32nd Chief of Staff of Óglaigh na hÉireann, should finally take this opportunity to rehabilitate their memory,” he said.
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