Sign up to The Irish Times Archive (1859 - 2008)My Account »
Mon 12 Dec 2008Bust of Tom Barry unveiled
A BUST of Gen Tom Barry was unveiled at Fitzgerald Park in Cork over the weekend by Cathal McSwiney Brugha, a grandson of Terence McSwiney, the former lord mayor of Cork who died on hunger strike in Brixton Prison in 1921.
Tom Barry died in 1980 and is buried in St Finbarr's Cemetery, Wilton. The Kerry-born general, who spent much of his life in Cork, was a prominent leader in the Irish Republican Army during the War of Independence.
Choose a Subscription type - required
