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Funeral Notice · primary-source record

Kevin G. Barry

November 1, 1920

Died 1 November 1920 · Mountjoy Prison, Dublin, Ireland

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At-a-glance facts

Record type

Funeral Notice

Date of death

November 1, 1920

Place of death

Dublin, Ireland

The funeral notice

From the funeral card

In Loving Memory of

Kevin G. Barry,

Who was hanged in Mountjoy Prison, 1st November, 1920.

R.I.P.

O Immense Passion! O Profound Wounds! O Profusion of Blood! O Sweetness above all sweetness! O Most Bitter Death! grant him eternal rest. Amen.

—100 days' Indulgence.

Has sorrow thy young days shaded,

As clouds o'er the morning fleet?

Too fast have those young days faded,

That even in sorrow were sweet.

Does Time with his cold wing wither

Each feeling that once was dear?

Come, Child of Misfortune! come hither,

I'll weep with thee tear for tear.

—Moore.

"Though I die, I die in a good cause."

The original page adds a note on Mountjoy Prison: "Mountjoy Prison or Ireland's Model Prison as it was known dates back to 1850. It was designed by Colonel Joshua Jebb, the architect of Pentonville Prison in England. Mountjoy was originally intended as the first stop for men sentenced to transportation where they would spend a period in separate confinement and then be transferred to Spike Island before where they would be transported to Van Diemen's land."

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From the Ancestors at Rest archive — founded 2004 by Brian and substantially built out across two decades by Lorine McGinnis Schulze of Olive Tree Genealogy.
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Last verified
2026-06-18
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