With thanks to Tomás MacCormaic and our friends in the Liam Lynch Fermoy Commemoration for arranging this visit.

Be the First to secure your limited print edition General Liam Lynch Commemorative Calendar by purchasing online now CLICK HERE.

This high-quality commemorative keepsake features a stunning collection of photographs and written paragraphs, including a calendar, that honours the legacy of Liam Lynch and the events of the 1919-1923 period. Each page is meticulously designed to perfection, it’s an authentic collectable ,with very rare eyewitness accounts. Secure your piece of history and cherish Liam Lynch’s legacy by placing your order for the Liam Lynch Commemorative Calendar today!

There is a Limited Print Run on these and we expect them to sell out fast. They will be on sale in local shops and at all of our events over our commemoration Weekend. If you are not in a position to get one locally, you can order one online. From next weekend they will go on sale in the shops or you can order yours online today.

Tickets go on sale from the 1st March in local shops and through Links on this website.

This morning we were delighted to officially launch our Centenary Commemoration Weekend for General Liam Lynch which will take place across Easter Weekend 8th-10th April to coincide with the 100th Anniversary of his death.

The village of Newcastle has had a long association with commemorating General Liam Lynch since the original committee of volunteers and locals formed to build the Liam Lynch Monument back in 1934. Our committee has continued to hold a commemoration and mass for Liam Lynch in Newcastle in April every year since then.

We are delighted to officially announce our plans for a weekend of commemorative events from Sat 8th- Easter Monday 10th April.

Tickets will go on sale on the 1st March and will be available online at www.liamlynchcommemorationnewcastle.ie and in local shops.

We have a full programme of events that we hope will honour the memory of a great leader who gave his life for Irish freedom and we look forward to welcoming large crowds to Newcastle for this Centenary Commemoration.

Tá fáilte roimh chách!

Oғғɪᴄɪᴀʟ Lᴀᴜɴᴄʜ ᴏғ ᴛʜᴇ Gᴇɴᴇʀᴀʟ Lɪᴀᴍ Lʏɴᴄʜ Cᴇɴᴛᴇɴᴀʀʏ Cᴏᴍᴍᴇᴍᴏʀᴀᴛɪᴏɴ Wᴇᴇᴋᴇɴᴅ

All videos are from Digital Recollections 2013 and was an initiative of Muintir na Tíre in Tipperary.

We hope to name the children interviewers (not children anymore) soon.

Nov 5, 2013 Newcastle NS, Elsie Cullinan 2

Interviewers: Michéal Shortiss and Saoirse Ryan

Nov 5, 2013 Newcastle NS, Mim Murphy 2

Interviewers: Max Zimmann and Dane O’Sullivan

Nov 3, 2013 Grange NS, Michael Keating

Nov 4, 2013 Grange NS, Michael O’Byrne

Newcastle NS, Aggie Hogan

Interviewer: David Kelly

Newcastle NS, Alice O’Shea

Interviewers: Dane O’Sullivan and Padraig O’Loughlin

Newcastle NS, Con Dwyer

Interviewers: Caelainn McGrath and Diarmuid O’Dwyer

Grange NS, Mary O’Loughlin

We are always looking for more video interviews from our local communities to post here.

We would also like to identify the young people doing the interviewing in each video, so if you can name any of them please email the name of the video and their name.

Thanks to Max Zimmann for identifying the Interviewers in The Newcastle NS videos.

Come on, someone from Grange must be able to identify their Interviewers!

As always on that weekend, our Commemoration Committee in Newcastle will host an event to mark his death, and this year there are many plans underway for the Centenary Commemoration which falls on Easter Weekend.

Save the date, keep an eye out for further updates and do get in touch if you wish to find out more, join the mailing list or get involved!

All are welcome to attend.

The second set of photos are from inside the Poly Tunnel in the Community Garden shows that even the plants are still doing well.

The third set of photos are from the Duck Pond (Kildanogue Wildfowl Sanctuary & Nature Reserve) about 10 minutes from Newcastle Village. Click on any Image for a Bigger version.

Duck Pond (Kildanogue Wildfowl Sanctuary & Nature Reserve) about 10 minutes from Newcastle Village. Click on any Image for a Bigger version.

This Audio clip below (22 minutes) is from the RTE Radio series Uncivil War, presented by Colm Keane, when many happenings and aspects of the Civil War are commented on by contributors. Interviews of Mr Con Donovan, of Ballyporeen who was Chairman of the Liam Lynch Memorial Committee from 1960 to 1990, in all 30 years and when he joined the committee he met many of the men who had fought in the War for Independence and also of the Civil War, including Matt Flood, Lar Condon, John Fanning, Paddy O’Brien, Liscarroll, Paddy Aherne and others.

Born at Barnagurraha near Mitchelstown, he is credited with playing a pivotal role in helping to organise the Irish Volunteers in Cork, serving as Commandant of the Cork No2 Brigade of the Irish Republican Army during the War of Independence.

Lynch was vehemently opposed to the signing of the Anglo-Irish Treaty, famously saying “we have declared for an Irish Republic, and will not live under any other law.”

After initially opposing the seizure of the Four Courts in 1922, Lynch joined the garrison and was arrested by Free State forces and later released on the understanding that he would try to halt the fighting. Instead he set about reorganising resistance, even planning the establishment of a ‘Munster Republic’, which he believed would hamper the development of the Free State. Lynch was fatally wounded during a skirmish with Free State forces in the Knockmealdown Mountains on April 10, 1923 and laid to rest in Kilcrumper two days later. Buried in the Republican Plot in Kicrumper Old Cemetery, he rests along side fallen comrades: Michael Fitzgerald (Fermoy) Daniel Shinnick (Castletownroche), Michael Rouse (Ballindangan) and Denis O’Brien (Kilworth).

His death shocked the nation and was widely regarded as one of the key motivations behind the decision by army Chief of Staff, Fran Aiken to declare a ceasefire on April 30, 1923.

Rest in Peace.

The Liam Lynch memorial.

On 7 April 1935, a 60-foot-high (18 m) round tower monument was erected on the spot where Lynch is thought to have fallen. This memorial lies on the wooded slopes of Crohan Mountain.

• Community groups are trained to use digital cameras and smartphones to survey historic graveyards.
• Both new and old survey records are combined with locally recorded audio and video stories to form a multi media record of a graveyard.
• By curating and publishing the survey records centrally the individual community graveyard surveys combine to form a national resource where the value of each survey is compounded by its association with others.
• The website allows visitors from Ireland and across the globe to freely explore and search the growing database of multimedia records and stories.
• It allows communities to self publish historic graveyard surveys and the related multimedia stories.
• The surveys are being funded by a number of Local Development Partnerships through LEADER funds and are supported by Local Heritage Officers, County Archaeologists and Local Authorities.
• People, institutions and organisations contribute to the project in three ways 1. voluntary works 2. permission 3. funding.
• We now spend a lot of time working with community groups to get funding for training surveys and uploads. And starting in April 2018 we are asking people who use the website to crowdfund new surveys. Every penny (except Paypal charges) will go to new surveys.

The website and survey methodology have been designed and built by Eachtra Archaeological Projects.

Summary:

Graveyard Code: TS-MQNCRMP Site number: TS088-032004 Townland: Middlequarter County: Tipperary

Number of Memorials: 204

The link below will bring you to the database for this graveyard in Newcastle, Tipperary.

Click here to go to the database for the Middlequarter Graveyard in Newcastle Tipperary.