[1] Curry studied medicine at Paris and Reims, then returned to Dublin to practise his profession.
[1] Anti-Catholic legislation barred Catholics from most forms of schooling, but it was not unusual for wealthy families to break the law and arrange for their children to be educated abroad.
[1] As an ardent Catholic, Curry was troubled by the anti-Catholic historiography hegemonic in his day and resolved to refute the various and sundry "calumnies".
In the late 1750s, together with Charles O'Connor and Thomas Wyse, Curry became one of the founders of the Irish Catholic Committee.
[1][2] Curry was one of 49 physicians and chirurgeons who declared their public support for the construction of a Publick Bath in Dublin in May 1771 and named Achmet Borumborad as a well qualified individual for carrying such a scheme into existence.