SENATOR MARK DALY
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    • Biggest Bridge in the State renamed for Thomas F Meagher
    • Rapporteur of Seanad Public Consultation on National Anthem
    • Irish Flag can now be flown at night
  • Kerry
    • Kenmare Hospital
    • Kenmare Peninsula Park
    • Marine Rescue Coordination Centres saved from closure
    • €200,000 of lottery funding secured for Cystic Fibrosis Unit
    • Red Tape Report in order to create jobs
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    • A Cead Mile Failte to the US Ambassador to Ireland, Claire Cronin
    • Senator Daly Appointed as Spokesperson for Diaspora Affairs
    • Senator Daly Publishes the First Policy by any Political Party for the Irish Overseas and Diaspora
    • Irish Oak Tree Ceremony on Capitol Hill DC to Commemorate the 1916 Rising organised by Senator Daly
    • Certificate of Irish Heritage taken from Concept to White House with the help of Senator Daly
    • Direct Flights from Dublin to San Francisco reinstated
    • American Irish Legislators of New York 40th Anniversary Webinar
  • Irish Sign Language Rights
    • Irish Sign Langauge Law
    • Irish Sign Language National Anthem
  • Irish Sign Language National Anthem St Patricks Day Challenge
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LARGEST BRIDGE IN THE STATE RENAMED IN HONOR OF THOMAS FRANCIS MEAGHER


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The largest bridge in Ireland, which spans the river Suir outside Waterford and was opened in 2009, has been named the.Thomas Francis Meagher Bridge, in honour of the man who played a key role in the 1848 rebellion before being transported abroad.

President Higgins made a speech at an event for the naming of the bridge (full version available here) on why characters of Irish History such as Meagher should be remembered:

“Today, through the naming of the “Thomas Francis Meagher Bridge”, we are inscribing the Revolutionary nationalism of the Young Irelanders as a further layer in the local memorial landscape. Few Irish patriots have appealed so warmly to the popular imagination in their own time as has Thomas Francis Meagher in the mid-19th century.

Eloquent, generous, passionate, courageous and handsome; in turn orator, journalist, lawyer, revolutionary, convict, soldier in the American civil war and Acting Governor of Montana – there is a picturesque, almost literary, quality to Meagher’s personality and life, which continues to capture our imagination.

In so many ways, Thomas Meagher is characteristic of that generation of 1848, who, throughout Europe, from the Polish lands of the Austrian Empire’s Eastern frontier to Italy, from Denmark to France and Italy, fought against tyranny, to vindicate liberty and the self-determination of oppressed peoples.”


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  • Home
  • About
    • About Mark
    • Role of Cathaoirleach
    • Contact
  • Seanad Éireann
    • Speeches
    • Recent Press
  • Seanad 100
    • Seanad 100 Launch
    • Seanad 100 Exhibit
    • Interview with Eolas Magazine
  • Shared Ireland
    • Article from The Economist Magazine on a United Ireland
    • Research Reports >
      • Uniting Ireland & its people in Peace & Prosperity Brexit & the Future of Ireland
      • Unionist Concerns & Fears of a United Ireland
      • Northern Ireland’s Income & Expenditure in a reunification scenario
      • The Calling of a Referendum on a United Ireland by the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland
      • Northern Ireland Returning to Violence due to a Hard Border as a result of Brexit or a Rushed Border Poll: Risk to Youth
      • Submissions to the National Risk Assessment 2019 from Deputy Seán Fleming & Senator Mark Daly
  • Decade of Commemorations
    • Member of the All-Party Consultation Group on Commemorations
    • Washington Monument to Receive Commemorative Plaque from Ireland
    • Over 4,000 secondary school students receive National Flag
    • Senator Mark Daly works with world famous Smithsonian Museum
    • Biggest Bridge in the State renamed for Thomas F Meagher
    • Rapporteur of Seanad Public Consultation on National Anthem
    • Irish Flag can now be flown at night
  • Kerry
    • Kenmare Hospital
    • Kenmare Peninsula Park
    • Marine Rescue Coordination Centres saved from closure
    • €200,000 of lottery funding secured for Cystic Fibrosis Unit
    • Red Tape Report in order to create jobs
  • Diaspora
    • A Cead Mile Failte to the US Ambassador to Ireland, Claire Cronin
    • Senator Daly Appointed as Spokesperson for Diaspora Affairs
    • Senator Daly Publishes the First Policy by any Political Party for the Irish Overseas and Diaspora
    • Irish Oak Tree Ceremony on Capitol Hill DC to Commemorate the 1916 Rising organised by Senator Daly
    • Certificate of Irish Heritage taken from Concept to White House with the help of Senator Daly
    • Direct Flights from Dublin to San Francisco reinstated
    • American Irish Legislators of New York 40th Anniversary Webinar
  • Irish Sign Language Rights
    • Irish Sign Langauge Law
    • Irish Sign Language National Anthem
  • Irish Sign Language National Anthem St Patricks Day Challenge
  • Gardens of Remembrance Brochure
  • Gardens of Remembrance & Reflection