32CSM Scotland: 32CSM Scotland Attend Glencoe Massacre Commemoration

Tuesday, February 15, 2011

32CSM Scotland Attend Glencoe Massacre Commemoration

32CSM Scotland Attend Glencoe Massacre Commemoration

The 32 County Sovereignty Movement in Scotland recently attended the annual Glencoe Massacre commemoration organised by the Scottish Republican Socialist Movement. The commemoration took place on Saturday the 12th February at the Glencoe Massacre Memorial and was attended very well and there was also a social afterwards. The Glencoe massacre took place on the 13th February 1692 when 38 members of the MacDonald clan were massacred by the Campbell clan sent by the crown forces. The Vol. Charles Carrigan Cumann of the 32CSM wish to thank the organisers for what was a very successfull day and helps keep Scottish history fresh in everyones minds.

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Volunteer Charles Carrigan

Charles Carrigan was born in Glasgow of Irish parents. He came to Dublin a few months before the Rising. He possessed rare mental gifts and managed while working at his trade as a tailor to attend night classes. He became proficient in French and Latin, and also studied Irish. At 16 years of age he was President of the United Irish League in Denny Stirlings. He returned to Glasgow and was much in demand as a lecturer on literary subjects. He severed his connection with the U.I.L. and joined Sinn Fein. He was also an enthusiastic Gaelic Leaguer. About a year before the Rising he returned to Ireland, and came to live in Dublin. He was killed while fighting in Henry Street, on April 28th, which, by a sad coincidence, was his thirty-fourth birthday. He fell beside The O'Rahilly and is buried in the 1916 plot in St Paul's Glasnevin.

On Easter Sunday, March 31^st 1929, in the presence of several thousand people, the Easter memorial was unveiled by Frank Ryan, then O/C Dublin Brigade, I.R.A.. Before the ceremony, the people had marched from the city in procession with six bands to play them on their way.