Barry’s execution outraged nationalist public opinion in Ireland and its diaspora.
Barry’s execution outraged nationalist public opinion in Ireland and its diaspora.
Barry’s execution outraged nationalist public opinion in Ireland and its diaspora.
Barry’s execution outraged nationalist public opinion in Ireland and its diaspora.
In an exclusive interview with Gript, a descendant of Kevin Barry has slammed many of the modern political parties who celebrated the rebel last week, saying he would be “appalled at the current tyranny that reigns in this country.” Barry, who was a young medical student and IRA volunteer during the War of Independence, was […]
Statues are big news these times. Beginning in the United States, any memorial that could be even tenuously connected to some form of racism became fair game for the iconoclasts of the ultra-left. That quickly extended to attacks on Christian churches in Chile and other countries. Apart from a half-hearted fuss about the Seán Russell […]
Kevin Gerard Barry was the first Irish republican to be executed by the British since the leaders of the Easter Rising. He was a 18-year-old medical student who had won a merit-based scholarship given annually by Dublin Corporation, which allowed him to become a student of medicine at UCD. Born on Fleet Street, Dublin, the […]
On Tuesday the Irish Times published an opinion piece by Professor Chris Fitzpatrick of the School of Medicine in UCD decrying the commemoration of the execution of Kevin Barry who was a medical student in UCD at the time of his death. Barry was hanged in Mountjoy Prison on November 1, 1920 having been captured […]
Kevin Gerard Barry was the first Irish republican to be executed by the British since the leaders of the Easter Rising. He was a 18-year-old medical student who had won a merit-based scholarship given annually by Dublin Corporation, which allowed him to become a student of medicine at UCD. Born on Fleet Street, Dublin, the […]