Commemorative plaque, Kevin Barry

Commemorative plaque, Kevin Barry

This plaque is a plaster copy of the bronze commemorative plaque placed at the junction of Church Street and North King Street in Dublin, where Kevin Barry was captured.
Kevin Barry, a UCD medical student and member of H Company, 1^st Battalion Dublin Brigade, IRA, had been active in a number of operations since he joined at the age of 15. In September 1920 he took part in an ambush on a British Army truck in which a number of soldiers were killed.
Barry was captured and tortured for information, and was executed in Mountjoy Jail on 1^st November 1920, aged 18. He was the first man to be executed for republican activities since the execution of the leaders of the 1916 Rising, and the first of the ten IRA men executed between 1920 and 1921 who would become known as the Mountjoy Ten.