Dunmore’s Easter Rising hero

THE heroic exploits of Dunmore native Patrick Joseph Murray, probably the only North Galway man to fight in Dublin’s GPO during the 1916 Rising, who was born in the town’s Gater Street (now Sion Hill), are being commemorated in his home town on the centenary of the rebellion.
The current principal of Dunmore NS, John O’Mahoney, was delighted when relatives of Patrick, who was wounded when fighting alongside one of the slain 1916 heroes The O’Rahilly, visited the school last Friday. Plans are afoot to erect a plaque in his memory at the school which is beside where he and his six siblings were born.
Patrick was known to his family as a gentle giant of a man. He was an uncle to Eithne, Fr. Paddy, Peggy, Louie, Tom, Jack, Brian and Brendan Mahon from Sion Hill.