The unknown commandant
Subtitle: the life and times of Denis Barry 1883-1923
By: Denis Barry
Publisher: Collins Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Cork
Language: eng
Number of pages: 237
ISBN-13: 9781848890299
Description: This title explores who Denis Barry, the 'Unknown Commandant', was. Barry had toiled in the shadows of McSwiney and McCurtain in the tumultuous period of the Irish War of Independence. A brave soldier, patriot and sportsman, hunger strike ended his life at the Curragh Military Prison in 1923 for the cause he believed in.