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The signal fire on Slievenamon for the Monster Meeting. Thomas Francis Meagher and Michael Doheny addressed 50,000 people there on 16 July 1848 (Currier and Ives)
A talk on the famous 1848 Monster Meeting on Slievenamon will take place in Carrick-on-Suir Library this Wednesday, May 31 at 6.30pm.
Robert Duggan will give the talk on the Monster Meeting, led by the Young Irelanders, that took place on Slievenamon to protest about the export of food during The Famine.
On that historic day up to 50,000 people made the climb to show their revulsion at the devastation caused by The Famine, having witnessed the harvest being exported while one million Irish people died from starvation.
Commemoration
Mr Duggan will also outline the plans to stage a commemorative re-enactment of the Monster Meeting on Slievenamon on July 16 to mark the event’s 175th anniversary.
The talk is a free event but booking is essential.
You can book by emailing: carricklibrary@tipperary
coco.ie or phoning (051) 640591.
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