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2016 Mayor of Malaga -  Francisco de la Torres Prados Roger Cummiskey with Jon Valera, relative of Eamon De Valera. Roger Cummiskey with Antonio Sierra, former Director of the Instituto Cultural de Espanol en Dublin (Cervantes Institute). On  Sunday 08 December, 2013  at 13 h at the obelisk in Plaza de la Merced an Irish flag was presented by Roger Cummiskey from Dublin to the  Asociación Histórico - Cultural Torrijos 1831 to honour one of the 52 people shot on the beach in Málaga - Robert Boyd from Northern Ireland. The execution from the  Prado. Gisbert Pérez, Antonio (Spanish) Title The Execution by Firing Squad of Torrijos and his Colleages on the beach at Málaga Chronology 1888 Measures 390 cm x 601 cm The liberal, José María Torrijos (1791-1831), accompanied by his companions, is executed by the absolutist troops of Fernado VII (1784-1833) on the beach at Málaga. This masterpiece of nineteenth-century Spanish history painting was comm