Requiem mass was celebrated this afternoon as part of the state funerals of ten IRA volunteers executed during the War of Independence. The mass was celebrated in Dublin's Pro Cathedral.
Nine of the men, including the best remembered, Kevin Barry, were re-buried in a special Republican plot in Glasnevin cemetery today. The body of Patrick Maher will be interred in County Limerick, at his family's request.
The proceedings began this morning at Mountjoy Prison with a private prayer service for the families of the volunteers. Up to 10,000 people turned out to see the state funeral cortege.
The ten volunteers were executed in Mountjoy Gaol between 1920 and 1921. The President, the Taoiseach and all members of the Oireachtas were among the invited guests who attended the requiem mass.
The Taoiseach gave a graveside oratory as the nine men were re-buried in the Republican plot at the base of the O'Connell Tower.
The ten men were all sentenced to die by courts martial after being found guilty of murder or high treason. Until their exhumation, all ten lay beside each other in graves inside the walls of Mountjoy Prison. The men were: Kevin Barry, Thomas Whelan, Patrick Moran, Patrick Doyle, Bernard Ryan, Frank Flood, Thomas Bryan, Thomas Traynor, Edmond Foley and Patrick Maher.
