1920: Kevin Barry

ExecutedToday.com ^ | November 1, 2007 | Headsman

[CheshireTheCat]

On this date in 1920, 18-year-old Irish Republican Army Section Commander Kevin Barry was hanged in Dublin’s Mountjoy Prison for the murder of English Private Harold Whitehead in an IRA ambush just six weeks prior to the execution. Denying the authority of the British (civilian) court, the young medical student went undefended, insouciantly reading the newspaper in court as the government built its case against him. His was the first execution of the Irish War of Independence, and stoked Irish nationalist sentiment on the island and abroad.

[Olog-hai]

Another martyr for old Erin
Another martyr for the crown
The British laws may crush the Irish
But cannot keep their spirits down …

Nope; what keeps the spirits of the Irish down is the seductive call of the EUSSR, which makes them abandon their faith and embrace abortion and homosexual “marriage”. Those laws are what crush the Irish.

[Capt. Tom]

I have often heard that song sung when I was a kid, but the singers in an Irish brogue always put in a sorrowful line or two of "They're hanging Kevin Barry in the Morning."-Tom

[SavannahWonderer]

Grew up at an Irish pub bearing his name in my hometown; Savannah, Ga. Through and through an authentic house complete with an Irish Musician/Story/Blarney Teller, Harry O’Donoghue.
Upstairs was the most heartwarming memorial to Fallen warriors. At the bottom of the stairs and on the way up we’re all of the Irish Freedom fighters. The family who owned it unfortunately closed its door on New Year’s day. A friend and I popped in the last week they were opened for pint of Guinness and toured the upstairs wiping away tears. Walked out with a souvenir pint glass and a broken heart...

[MarvinStinson]

KEVIN BARRY

[TokarevM57]

....very interesting....my Air National Guard unit virtually always did its two weeks “summer camp” at the Savannah airport (which is actually in Garden City, Georgia...). Never had the chance to do much pub-crawling, but always thought Savannah was a really cool city....back in the day, Savannah hosted what was the second-largest St. Patrick’s Day celebration outside of New York City.... but, whooo! the smell when the wind shifted and the fumes from those paper mills on the river came over our area...! fond memories....!!

[BarbM]

Occasionally in my Catholic Daily Devotional an Irishman’s story will be told about how “Queen Elizabeth or whoever” would behead or torture a faithful Catholic and my Irish ire gets stirred up.

You know the Good Friday Peace accords and all.

but this is starting to make me mad.