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Spike Island Flag Raising commemoration
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A ceremony, organised by Cobh Tourism in association with the Spike Island Heritage committee and supported by Cork County Council will be held in the Promenade in Cobh on Monday 11th July to commemorate the first time that the Irish Tricolour was raised on Spike Island in 1938.
The flag was raised by then Taoiseach Eamon de Valera as a result of the Treaty Ports handover.
A Colour Party from the O.N.E. (organisation of National ex-servicemen and women) will be led by St. Colman’s Pipe Band from Cobh Heritage Centre to the Promenade shortly after 7.30 pm. A short ceremony will be followed by the Irish flags being raised simultaneouly in Cobh and on Spike Island as the bells of St. Colman’s Cathedral ring at 8 pm. Member sof the public are encouraged to attend.
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