BOACC Chairman Tola Collier interview on LMFM, April 10th, 2017
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BOACC are honoured to announce that the Drogheda & Slane Branch of the Organisation of National Ex-Service Personnel will join us to render honours to Thomas Ashe on Sunday the 23rd of April. The Drogheda & Slane Branch are the 2nd oldest and 2nd largest in the Organisation of National Ex-Service Personnel, and BOACC have had the privilege of working with them several times so far during the Decade of Centenaries in Meath. The BOACC Living History Festival is part of this year’s Thomas Ashe Centenary Commemorations, and a parade and wreath laying ceremony will be the concluding event of the festival at the Ashbourne GAA Club on the 23rd of April 2017.
United Irishmen and Women from Wexford last fought the red coated militia in Meath on the 14th of July 1798 at the battle of Knightstown Bog. BOACC are delighted to announce that the Wexford rebels are coming to County Meath again this April for the BOACC Living History Festival. The Enniscorthy Historical Re-enactment Society will be taking part in the 1798 battle on Saturday and the Irish War of Independence battle on Sunday, as well as the Thomas Ashe Centenary Commemoration ceremony which concludes festival. It’s going to be a historic weekend in Ashbourne on the 22nd and 23rd April 2017.
BOACC are delighted to announce that internationally renowned film makers Tile Film will be taking part in the BOACC Ashbourne Living History Festival. Their latest docudrama ‘’Fingal’s Finest’’ will be screened at the festival on Saturday the 22nd of April. The film Finest’’ features the BOACC re-enactment group and historian Tóla Collier. https://vimeo.com/195812258
The Irish Military Vehicles Club will be exhibiting at the BOACC Ashbourne Living History Festival. The festival is part of the 2017 Thomas Ashe Centenary Commemorations and remembers in particular the Battle of Ashbourne on the 28th of April 1916 in which a large motorised force of Royal Irish Constabulary was defeated by the 5th Battalion of the Dublin Brigade commanded by Thomas Ashe. Joseph Lawless who also fought at the battle later became a colonel in the Cavalry Corps of the Irish Army, and was responsible for the construction of armoured cars which were used by the army in Ireland and in the Congo. The Irish Military Vehicles Club currently has over 40 members who own over 30 vehicles and are based in Leinster. If you are interested in military history and the part vehicles have played in the momentous events of the past 100 years then Ashbourne is the place to be on Saturday and Sunday the 22nd and 23rd of April 2017.
Delighted to announce that ‘’Hands on History’’ will be exhibiting in the main arena at the 2017 BOACC Ashbourne Living History Festival on the 22nd & 23 of April.