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s part of the Ireland 2016 Centenary programme, official ceremonies to commemorate the executions of the Leaders of the 1916 Rising took place between the 3rd and the 12th of May at Stonebreakers' Yard, Kilmainham Gaol.
There were individual ceremonies to commemorate each execution on the centenary date of the execution and each ceremony was comprised of a number of elements including the reading of the trial documents relating the charge against the accused man, the plea that was entered, the verdict of the court and the witness statements provided. A member of the Capuchin Friars also attended and delivered a reading from the memoirs of the individual Friar who attended each of the men prior to their execution. This was followed by a wreath laying service with a Military colour party, Military Police wreath bearer and a Piper’s lament.
In the Stonebreakers’ yard at Kilmainham Gaol, President Higgins lays a wreath on the spot where the Leaders of the 1916 Rising were executed in the days after the Rising.
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