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Posted by UTP on November 10, 2003 at 21:13:32: In Reply to: Funeral photo,mystery solved posted by MM on November 10, 2003 at 00:16:50:
On Monday, 17 October 1920, having endured the agonies of hunger-strike for 67 days, Michael Fitzgerald, one of the prisoners in Cork Jail, died. The following Thursday, despite intimidation of mourners by heavily armed British forces, thousands of people attended his funeral in Fermoy
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