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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 ...
Aug 23, 2021 · Tom Barry returns to Kilmichael to give an account of the IRA attack led by him on Auxiliary forces in 1920.The ambush was carried out on 28 November 1920 by...
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Jan 25, 2019 · A documentary on the life of General Tom Barry, legendary IRA guerrilla leader of the Third West Cork Brigade. The programme deals with the controversies thr...
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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 · Yet another luminary of that period, but one who never entered representative politics, let alone government , was of course Tom Barry, who lived in retirement in Cork, with occasional forays...
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.
