Mass IRA grave a compelling element of UCC’s architectural heritage

The unveiling of the memorial at a grave of 13 IRA members executed by the British was an important day for University College Cork

Guns are filed to salute the unveiling of the memorial to executed IRA prisoners on what is now the grounds of University College Cork. 

The historic University College Cork campus includes a mass grave of 13 Irish Republican Army (IRA) members executed by the British government in 1921.

They were shot by British Army firing squads at the Cork Detention Barracks inside Victoria Barracks (now Collins Barracks) at different dates in 1921, and buried on the grounds of Cork Men’s Gaol, which was later taken over by UCC.