The Easter Rising in the Avondhu catchment area may be synonymous with the Kent family in Castlelyons and the execution of Thomas Kent, however a number of men from the local area were also present in Dublin at the time of the uprising and fought with, and alongside, the men and women who strived to achieve freedom for Ireland.
One of the men was Martin Kiniry, a shopkeeper from Patrick Street in Fermoy, who travelled to Dublin to take part in the Rising.
Martin was subsequently arrested on Dame Street. He was interned at Frongoch in Wales for a number of months and upon his release, returned to Fermoy where he was known to have a strong aversion to politics in Ireland.
More well known, perhaps, is Thomas Hunter from Castletownroche. Born in 1883, he was the son of Con Hunter, the local creamery manager and Ellen Hunter, originally from Glanworth.
Upon moving to Dublin in his late teens, he joined Conradh na Gaelige and became a close friend of Con Colbert, one of the …
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