Kevin Gerard Barry, born 20th Jan 1902, 8 Fleet St, Dublin,
see him and some of family listed
at 8 Fleet St
in
[Census, 2 April 1911],
educ Belvedere College,
medical student, UCD (NOT Trinity),
joined the IRA in War of Independence,
on 20th Sept 1920 he took part in an IRA attack on a British Army party who were collecting bread from Monk's Bakery, Church St (nr the Four Courts), Dublin, the intention was to steal their rifles, but shooting broke out,
the IRA men killed 3 British soldiers (Harold Washington, Marshall Whitehead and Thomas Humphries), first British military deaths of the War of Independence,
Kevin Barry's gun jammed and he hid under a truck during the firefight, his comrades withdrew and he was captured hiding under the truck,
he was abused in custody but refused to reveal the names of the others,
hanged Mountjoy Prison, Dublin, 1st Nov 1920, age 18 yrs,
bur in grounds of Mountjoy,
first execution of the War of Independence, became a symbol of Irish martyrdom,
Patricia Lavelle, age 22 at the time, says: "With the rest of the Cumann na mBan, I stood outside the prison walls in the cold dawn of that frosty fog-laden morning. We said the rosary aloud that his soul might pass in peace",
he was re-buried with a state funeral in the Republican plot in Glasnevin Cemetery, Dublin, 2001.
born Eileen Mary Barry, 13th Nov 1903, 8 Fleet St, Dublin [GROI],
mar Aug 1935 to Mac O'Rahilly and had issue.
