On this day 1915 – tens of thousands of people lined the streets of Dublin leading up to Glasnevin Cemetery for the funeral of the old Fenian rebel Jeremiah O’Donovan Rossa. Patrick Pearse gave the funeral oration with the ending “…Ireland unfree shall never be at peace”. Photo Credit: Dublin South 1916 Centenary Committee.
HISTORIAN Brian Nugent says the evidence from the Tuam site shows that babies were not ‘thrown in a septic tank’ but actually re interred in an ossuary after the county council started building in the area.