Denny Barry

[2] Barry was born into a farming family in Riverstick, in south County Cork, and learnt Irish from a young age.

[3] In 1903, he moved to Cork to work in a drapery, where he became involved in the Gaelic League and the Ancient Order of Hibernians.

Shortly after the Easter Rising, he was arrested in Kilkenny in a British Government crackdown, and sent to Frongoch internment camp in North Wales.

[11] Barry was initially buried by the Free State army in the Curragh,[2] but three days later, following a court order, his remains were disinterred.

"[14] In Commandant Barry's hometown of Riverstick there stands a stone memorial (unveiled in 1966) in his honor and he is remembered with a wreath-laying commemoration every November.