On Sunday, 30th May, the annual Michael Fagan commemoration was held in the village of Collinstown, County Westmeath, to honour the executed member of the Irish National Invincibles.
Fagan who was a native of Kilpatrick, Collinstown, was executed in Kilmainham Gaol on 28th May 1883 for his alleged part in the killing of the British Chief Secretary, Edward Cavendish and the Under Secretary, Thomas Henry Burke, on 6th May 1882.
