A HUNGER STRIKE
REFUSED CHRISTIAN- BURIAL. LONDON, Wednesday. There -were remarkable scenes at Cork on the arrival of the body of Denis Barry, the hungerstriker, who died, and arranged that his body should lie in the Catholic Church overnight. The Roman Catholic Bishop Colialan, interdicted religions exercises, on the ground that republicanism in Ireland was wicked aiul an insidious attack on the church whose law deprived a Christian burial to anyone taking his own life.
The remains were not allowed to enter the church, but were taken to the rooms of the Sinn Fein Executive. —Reuter.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 49, Issue 15049, 30 November 1923, Page 3
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