Commemorative events to pay tribute to 'overlooked' Cork republican

Alderman Tadhg Barry, who served alongside Tomás MacCurtain and Terence MacSwiney in the First Cork Brigade of the Irish Volunteers, was a well-known journalist, a committed trade unionist and socialist who fought for the rights of workers and farm labourers and was a prominent figure in Cork GAA

Barry O'Shea, grandnephew of Tadhg Barry, lays a wreath at St Finbarrs Cemetery, Cork. Picture: Jim Coughlan

A key figure in Ireland’s struggle for independence has been honoured in his native city with a series of commemorative events to mark the centenary of his death.

Alderman Tadhg Barry was 41 when he was shot dead by a teenage British sentry at Ballykinlar internment camp in Co Down, on November 15, 1921.