National Day of Commemoration, held on the nearest Sunday to this date (Ireland)

National Day of Commemoration

Commemoration of Irish deaths in wars or UN peacekeeping missions

In Ireland, the National Day of Commemoration commemorates all Irish people who died in past wars or United Nations peacekeeping missions. It occurs on the Sunday nearest 11 July, the anniversary of the date in 1921 that a truce was signed ending the Irish War of Independence.…