Decade of Centenaries Sligo - Online Lecture Series: Joe McGowan Lecture on The Moneygold Ambush

The Moneygold Ambush
IRA ambush of RIC patrol at Monegold, Grange, Co. Sligo, 25 October 1920
Decade of Centenaries Sligo - Online Lecture Series
As part of our Decade of Centenaries programme, Sligo Libraries have created a series of short Online Lectures.
These recorded discussions will feature historical events of Sligo significance commemorated during the Decade of Centanaries.
These will include:
• Wednesday 9th of December from 8pm: Linda Kearns (1920/21)
Nurse Linda Kearns, native of Dromard, Co. Sligo, arrested November 1920 transporting firearms for the IRA
• Wednesday 9th of December from 8pm: The Moneygold Ambush
IRA ambush of RIC patrol at Monegold, Grange, Co. Sligo, 25 October 1920
• Wednesday 16th of December from 8pm: The Chaffpool Ambush
IRA ambush of RIC motor party at Chaffpool, Co. Sligo, 30 September 1920
Distinguished Speakers will include; Joe McGowan, Michael Farry and Dr. Pádraig Duignan.
Additional recording in this series include:
• Wednesday 16th of December from 8pm: Michèle, Local Historian with Sligo County Library, will deliver a talk on behalf of Dr. Rev. Peter C. Humphries on The History of the Sligo Congregational Church (1780-1939).
This talk will coincide with a forthcoming publication by Sligo Library of a pamphlet written by Rev. Dr Peter C. Humphries on the SCC.
• Wednesday 23rd of December from 8pm, on the eve of the First World War Christmas Truce.: A panel discussion with founding members of the Lest Sligo Forgets campaign; Simone Hickey, Tommy Higgins and Michael Kirby. Mícheál Ó Domhnaill will moderate the discussion
Lest Sligo Forgets is a Community Association whose aim is to create a Memorial Garden for volunteers and civilians from County Sligo who lost their lives in the Great War 1914 - 1918.
Details of this event schedule can found at sligolibrary.i....

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