Alf Monaghan, Vice Commandant of the Galway Brigade remembers the Rising

from the RTE Archives, a 1966 interview

Hilary Kiely/GMIT/GCC

National Museum of Ireland

Alf Monaghan, Vice-Commandant of the Galway Brigade remembers moving from the Model Farm to Moyode Castle and the subsequent decision to disband the Galway Volunteers as a result of a huge influx of military and police to the county on 28 April 1916.

This is from an interview for the programme ‘The Rising In Galway’, broadcast on Radio Éireann, 15 April 1966.

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