Reference code
IE CA CP/1/1/4/4/17
Title
Upper Church Street shortly after Kevin Barry’s arrest
Date(s)
- Sept. 1920 (Creation)
Level of description
Part
Extent and medium
Copy black and white print
Name of creator
(1615-2023)
Repository
Archival history
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Scope and content
The scene on Upper Church Street shortly after Kevin Barry’s arrest. A Dublin medical student, Barry was an Irish Volunteer who took part in an attack on a military truck outside a bakery on Church Street in which three British soldiers were killed in September 1920. He was captured at the scene, court-martialled and hanged in Mountjoy Jail on the morning of Monday, 1 November.