Joseph Whitty
Irish Republican hunger striker (d. 1923) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Michael Joseph Whitty (7 January 1905 – 2 August 1923) was the youngest (18 years of age) of the 22 Irish republicans who died while under on hunger strike in the 20th century.[1] Decades after his death another Volunteer (Kieran Doherty) also died on 2 August during the 1981 Irish hunger strike. Volunteer (Irish republican) Whitty fought with the IRA in the Irish War of Independence, on the Anti-Treaty side in the Irish Civil War and died while under internment by the Irish Free State government.