Weatherday: Students and peasants, the wise and the brave

Poppies in the Library Community Garden.

Cloudy to start with possibility of early light rain. The day will brighten from the east with good sunny spells through the afternoon.

Temperature up to 19deg in light north-east breezes.

On this day in 1920, thousands of people, many camping overnight, came to Sallins for the annual pilgrimage to Wolfe Tone's grave, where Countess Marckievicz and Mrs Eamonn Ceannt laid wreaths. (Kildare Timeline of War of Independence.)

Headline: From 'Tone's Grave' by Thomas Davis.

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