For four days after the Bloody Sunday shootings at Croke Park, the body of a man lay in the morgue at Jervis Street hospital. The newspaper reports described him as “middle-aged and sandy haired, of the labouring class. Dark brown hair turning grey, long sandy moustache. Believed to be an ex-soldier wearing an army undershirt and boots.”

A medical report added more detail, describing the dead man as about “40 years of age. He has light blue eyes. His height is about 5ft 6ins of slight build. His body is badly nourished. Dark brown hair turning grey. Sandy moustache falling over his mouth. Lean features and has a number of teeth missing in the front of his mouth in the upper jaw.”

On Bloody Sunday, Michael Feery left a small cottage on Gardiner Place near Mountjoy Square and made the short walk down to Croke Park. After the shooting stopped he struggled to the bridge outside, suffering from a severe wound to his thigh and was carried to a house on Russell Street. He still wore his army coat and boots from his time as part of the Royal Marine Labour Corps during World War One. His grey shirt that bore the writing AF192, the letters MF stitched in red.

The Thursday after Bloody Sunday his wife Brigid went to Jervis Street and finally identified her husband. He was buried in Glasnevin Cemetery.