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On Friday the 12th November 2010 Brian Crowley MEP, Senator Mark Daly  and the Transition Year Students of  Pobalscoil Inbhear Scéine unveiled a plaque to Commemorate the 95th Anniversary of the sending of a coded telegram by Kenmare post office worker Rosalie Rice informing America and the world that the 1916 rising had begun. 

Tim and Eugene Ring members of the Irish Republican Brotherhood, who workers in the Western Union cable station on Valentia Island, were to play their part by organising the sending of news of the Rising to the United States. However a trail telegram sent by the brothers in the weeks before the rebellion, with a non decrypts message resulted in the military censors questioned them. The reason for the censors suspicion was due to the fact that no incoming message was received into the cable Station and therefore the normal paper trail was missing. Outside assistance would be required and the Rings cousin  Rosalie Rice, who worked in Kenmare post office, agreed to send the coded telegram to the Valentia Station. 

When Pádraig Pearse issued the Order for the Volunteers to mobilise, she filed the coded telegram from Kenmare Post Office through her cousins in the Western Union in Valentia which read “Mother operated on  successfully today”. The 'Mother' referred to in the telegram was Mother Ireland refer to in so many songs and poems through out history. The telegram reached John Devoy, one of founders of the Irish Republican Brotherhood, in New York.  As a result, news of the Rebellion made   headlines in the United States before Britain.  With the world now aware of the Rising in Dublin, the eyes of the international community were focused on Britain's treatment of the Volunteers.  The telegram therefore played a role in preventing the continuation of the executions of the Volunteers.  The lives of many sentenced to death by Military Tribunals established by Commander-in-Chief of the British forces General Maxwell were saved. 

In the subsequent investigation by the British Military of how news of the rising was featured in the American newspapers on Tuesday of Easter week they eventually focused their attention on the telegram sent for Kenmare. 

The authorities concluded that this was the source. For their roles in sending the telegram Tim Ring was interned in Frongach Camp in Wales with other participants of the Rebellion. General Maxwell stated in a letter that  "Timothy Ring is without doubt a disloyal and dangerous man".  Eugene Ring was dismissed from Western Union, Rosalie Rice was imprisoned in Tralee Jail. 

The transition year student by erecting the commemorative plaque wished to honour the memory of Rosalie Rice, Tim Ring, Eugene Ring and all those who played their part in the Easter Rising of 1916.This plaque was made possible by the generosity of the Quill Family, and was compiled following research carried out by the Transition Year Class of 2009 students of Pobalscoil Inbhear Scéine Matty Adams, Kim Crowley, Rebecca Crowley, Laura Duncan, Alex Game, Felicity Gilbert, Katie Harrington,  Rachel Hawker, Johan Jonker, Diarmuid McCarthy, Andrew Meagher, Inga Meinjhardt, Sadhbh Moriarty, Brian Murphy, Megan Murphy, Dylan Neff,  Cáit Ni Chonnaill, Emma O’Connell, Eibhlin O’Sullivan, Jessica O’Sullivan, J.J. Riordan, Emilia Rudzinska, Sarah Topham, Frank Wallace, Tara Woods and Senator Mark Daly. It was funded by South Kerry Development Partnership.