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BY March 1923 the Irish Civil War had been raging for over six months. By now in county Wexford and elsewhere throughout the country the anti-treaty IRA had resorted back to the tactics they knew best from the War of Independence which was guerrilla warfare.
Dysart Cemetery on the Castleisland to Farranfore Road doesn t get a lot of attention these days in terms of funerals or ceremonies of any kind.
On the most recent St. Stephen s Day, however, a ceremony of great historical and local significance was held there.
A Covid-19 restricted gathering held a ceremony to commemorate the death and burial in 1920 of Irish Volunteer, patriot and Knocknagoshel native Captain James Hickey who was tortured and murdered by British forces in Tipperary Millitary Barracks on the Sunday of St. Stephen s Day 1920.
The Kerryman of January 8-1921 carried the following report of the funeral which occurred on Friday, December 31st. 1920.