President unveils a monument to Jimmy Gralton

Sat 3rd Sep, 2016 | 11:30
location: Effrinagh, Co. Leitrim
President unveils a monument to Jimmy Gralton

On 3 September, President Michael D. Higgins unveiled a monument to the memory of Leitrim socialist James (Jimmy) Gralton.

In 1933 James Gralton became the first - and only - Irish citizen to be deported from his own country by an Irish government. 

 

 

Click on the Speech tab above to read the text of the President's speech.