Kevin Barry was a member of the Irish Volunteers during the Irish War of Independence. He was executed in 1920 for his part in an ambush in Dublin which led to the deaths of three British soldiers. He was the first member of the Irish Volunteers to be executed since Easter Rising of 1916.
Kevin Gerard Barry was born in Fleet Street Dublin in January 1902. He was one of a family of seven children. The Barry family ran a successful dairy farm at Tombeagh, Hacketstown, Co Carlow and a retail business in Fleet Street, Dublin. In 1920 Kevin Barry was a medical student in University College Dublin
He was just 18 years old when he took part in the ambush of a British Army truck. The truck was picking up a delivery of bread from a bakery at the junction of Church Street and North King Street, Dublin. Mathew Whitehead one of the three soldiers who died as a result of the ambush was just 17 years old. Following the ambush Barry was captured and sentenced to death. He was hanged in Mountjoy Jail on November 1st 1920.
Kevin Barry was born in the year 1902 On This Day.
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Kevin Barry House – North King Street (Dublin)