Kevin Barry
Kevin Gerard Barry was an Irish Republican Army (IRA) soldier and medical student who was executed by the British Government during the Irish War of Independence. He was sentenced to death for his part in an attack upon a British Army supply lorry which resulted in the death of a British soldier.
Background
- Educated at
- University of California, BerkeleyUniversity of Washington
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"I am hugely insecure and desperate to be loved and I want my reader to adore me, to a disturbing, stalkerish degree."
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Timeline
1902
Born
Birth1920
Died
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