IN EARLY June 1937 a squad of 23 young seasonal agricultural workers left Achill Island, County Mayo to work on the annual Scottish potato harvest. There were 13 young women and girls and 10 young men and boys; the average age of the latter being around 16, the youngest, 13 years of age.

WITH the 90th anniversary of the tragic Bothy Fire in Kirkintiloch set to be marked in 2027, plans are well under way for a more extensive memorial to the site of the death of ten boys and young men from Achill Island—with the fundraising target already surpassed.