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General Liam Lynch.

The annual General Liam Lynch National commemoration will take place at Kilcrumper Cemetery, Fermoy on this Sunday, September 14. This is the 91st anniversary of the death of General Liam Lynch on the Knockmealdown Mountains in South Tipperary. The chairman of the National Liam Lynch Commemoration Committee Cllr Frank O’Flynn, has stated that he is delighted that this year’s oration will be given by Dr Brian P Murphy, OSB, Glenstall Abbey, Murroe, Co Limerick.

Dr Brian P Murphy OSB is a member of the Benedictine Community at Glenstal Abbey. He was born in London in 1935 and his parents were of Irish origin: his father, a graduate in medicine from UCC, was from Inchigeela near Macroom and his mother’s family, O’Brien, came from Ringmoylan, Pallaskenry, Co Limerick. His cousins, the Crimmins family, now farm at Castlelyons as well as in their original farmland at Glanmire.

Brian Murphy is a graduate of Oxford University, Trinity College, Dublin, and University College, Dublin. He has published several books: among them are Patrick Pearse and the Lost Republican Ideal (1991), John Chartres, Mystery Man of the Treaty (1995), The Origins and Organisation of British Propaganda in Ireland (2006) and many articles in academic journals. His most recent publication is Glenstal Abbey Gardens c.1650 to the Present, which was published in Easter of this year. In that book he records how Dail Eireann, in 1919, proposed that people should plant 16 trees in memory of the men executed after the Easter Rising. He then recounts how he implemented this proposal of the Dail by planting 16 trees in one of the old gardens in Glenstal Abbey.

The programme of events on the day will consist of Mass which will be celebrated at 10.30am in St Patrick’s Church, Fermoy. At 12 mid day the parade, led by pipe bands, will march from the Queen of Peace Church, Fermoy to the republican plot in Kilcrumper cemetery where General Liam Lynch is buried. Wreaths will be laid on the Republican Plot at 12.20pm followed by the delivery of the oration by Dr Murphy OSB. All are welcome to attend.

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