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Thomas Bernardine Barry (1 July 1897 – 2 July 1980), better known as Tom Barry, was a prominent guerrilla leader in the Irish Republican Army (IRA) during the Irish War of Independence and the Irish Civil War.
On November 28th, 1920, a mobile patrol of Auxiliaries was ambushed and destroyed by an IRA flying column led by Tom Barry at Kilmichael, Co Cork. The Kilmichael Ambush changed the nature of ...
A documentary on the life of General Tom Barry, legendary IRA guerrilla leader of the Third West Cork Brigade.
- 51 min
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Feb 9, 2021 · Controversial claims IRA commander Tom Barry invented the story of a false surrender by Auxiliaries at the Kilmichael ambush in 1920 have been challenged by a historian.
Dec 6, 2020 · Tom Barry, the architect of the Kilmichael ambush during the War of Independence, "point blank" refused to support republican hunger strikers in Portlaoise prison during the Troubles because of...
- Ronan Mcgreevy
Barry opposed the Anglo-Irish Treaty of 6 December 1921, because, according to him, it betrayed the Irish Republic and partitioned Ireland. He fought on the Republican side in the Irish Civil War (1922–1923) and was imprisoned by the Irish Free State after the Battle of Dublin in July 1922.
Dec 18, 2020 · Tom Barry became a legendary IRA commander in 1920 to 1921, but before that he was a British soldier in Mesopotamia in the First World War and, for some time after, apparently a loyal ex serviceman. We discuss his path, more tortuous than he wished to portray it, into the IRA.
