Riverstick native Denis Barry, refusing to accept the 1921 Anglo Irish Treaty, went on hunger strike in 1923, and 34 days later, in the Curragh hospital, he died. Family and friends will remember him fondly this monthBY ROBERT HUMEA century ago this very month, Ireland’s bigges
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Newmarket man Denis Barry was one of two fatalities of the October 1923 hunger strikes, instigating in response to jailings for opposing the Anglo-Irish Treaty, writes Robert Hume