Michael Fitzgerald (Irish republican)

Fitzgerald led 65 men in the hunger strike which was in protest at their detention without being either charged or convicted of any crime.

[2] Born in Ballyoran, Fermoy, County Cork, Fitzgerald was educated at the Christian Brothers school in the town and subsequently found work as a mill worker in the locality.

[3]Arrested and held on remand, Mick Fitzgerald felt that the only chance he had for release was via a hunger strike.

[3] Also buried in the Republican Plot in Fermoy is Liam Lynch, who was killed by Free State troops in April 1923.

[11] During a November 2008 visit to Fermoy, County Cork, then Sinn Féin vice-president Pat Doherty laid a wreath at Fitzgerald's grave.