Kevin Barry: An Irish Rebel in Life and Death, Paperback - Eunan O'Halpin

On 1 November 1920, eighteen-year-old UCD medical student Kevin Barry was hanged in Mountjoy Jail for his role in an IRA raid that killed a British...

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