#OTD in 1923 – Republican prisoner Denny Barry dies on hunger strike in Newbridge camp.

20/11/2022.Reading time 6 minutes.

Denis ‘Dinny’ Barry (Donnchadh de Barra) was born into a farming family in Cullen, Riverstick, ten miles south of Cork city. Barry enjoyed Gaelic culture and sport, and was a prominent member of the Ballymartle hurling club. He later joined the famous Blackrock National Hurling Club where he won 4 senior county championships in a […]

#OTD in 1923 – A mass Hunger Strike is launched by 424 Republican prisoners in Mountjoy Gaol in protest at their continued detention after the war’s end.

13/10/2022.Reading time 6 minutes.

On 13 October 1923, Michael Kilroy, O/C of the IRA prisoners in Mountjoy, announced a mass strike by 300 prisoners, and it soon spread to other jails. Within days over 7000 republicans were on hunger strike. The figures given by Sinn Féin at the time were : Mountjoy Jail: 462; Cork Jail: 70; Kilkenny Jail: […]

#OTD in 1923 – Republican prisoner Denny Barry dies on hunger strike in Newbridge camp.

20/11/2021.Reading time 6 minutes.

#OTD in 1923 – A mass Hunger Strike is launched by 424 Republican prisoners in Mountjoy Gaol in protest at their continued detention after the war’s end.

13/10/2021.Reading time 6 minutes.

#OTD in 1923 – Republican prisoner Denny Barry dies on hunger strike in Newbridge camp.

20/11/2020.Reading time 6 minutes.

#OTD in 1923 – A mass Hunger Strike is launched by 424 Republican prisoners in Mountjoy Gaol in protest at their continued detention after the war’s end.

13/10/2020.Reading time 6 minutes.

#OTD in 1923 – Republican prisoner Denny Barry dies on hunger strike in Newbridge camp.

20/11/2019.Reading time 6 minutes.

#OTD in 1923 – A mass Hunger Strike is launched by 424 Republican prisoners in Mountjoy Gaol in protest at their continued detention after the war’s end.

13/10/2019.Reading time 6 minutes.

#OTD in 1923 – Republican prisoner Denny Barry dies on hunger strike in Newbridge camp.

20/11/2018.Reading time 6 minutes.

#OTD in 1923 – A mass Hunger Strike is launched by 424 Republican prisoners in Mountjoy Gaol in protest at their continued detention after the war’s end.

13/10/2018.Reading time 6 minutes.

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#OTD in 1923 – Republican prisoner Denny Barry dies on hunger strike in Newbridge camp.

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