Title: The unknown commandant
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.
Subjects: Guerrillas, Political prisoners, Biography, Political prisoners, biography, Ireland, biography
Places: Ireland
People: Denis Barry (1883-1923)