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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
While Civil War as an armed conflict had ended in early summer 1923, the Counter-Revolution led by the Free State government continued and those who bore the worst of it were over 11,000 Republican.