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Alderman Tadhg Barry
The Lord Mayor Cllr. Colm Kelleher officiated at several events commemorating the centenary of the death of Alderman Tadhg Barry, who was shot dead by a British sentry at Ballykinlar Internment Camp, Co. Down, on 15th November 2021.
Barry, a well-known journalist, served alongside Tomás MacCurtain and Terence MacSwiney in the First Cork Brigade of the Irish Volunteers, and as an Alderman on Cork Corporation.
Lord Mayor Cllr. Colm Kelleher unveiled a commemorative plaque at 54 Blarney Street, the house where Barry was born and raised. He then attended a wreath laying ceremony at Barry’s grave at the Republican Plot in St. Finbarr’s Cemetery, Glasheen and a tree planting ceremony at Barry’s alma mater, the North Monastery. Lord Mayor Cllr. Colm Kelleher later opened a new historical exhibition “Tadhg Barry (1880 -1921): Rebel and Revolutionary” at Cork City and County Archives, Blackpool. The exhibition, part of Cork City Council’s Decade of Centenaries 1921 Programme, seeks to mark Tadhg Barry’s life and to raise awareness of his enormous contribution to the story of Cork in the tumultuous 1912-21 period. The launch of the exhibition took place in the presence o f members of Barry’s family, elected representatives, representatives of the GAA and the trade union movement, and of UCC historian Dr Donal Ó Drisceoil, whose biography of Barry, ‘Utter Disloyalist,’ was published on 5 November 2021.
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