Born into a Fenian family in Donore, Drogheda, Patrick Dennany joined C Company in the 2nd Dublin Battalion of the Irish Volunteers and took part in the Howth and Kilcoole gun-runnings. He was placed on guard duty and street patrol in the initial stages of the Easter Rising, and later helped to occupy houses on the Abbey Street and Liffey Street junction. Dennany was interned in Stafford Jail and Frongoch Prison camp until December 1916, and served as section commander of his unit during the War of Independence.
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