Missing person file’s release sheds new light on boy’s disappearance

President Eamon De Valera, with Martin Corry, right, at Cobh, Co Cork, in 1955. Corry claimed he was responsible for the execution of Edward Parsons but new evidence casts doubt on his claim.

Edward Parsons is believed to have been executed after admitting to spying for British forces during the Irish Revolution period, write Andy Bielenberg and Pádraig Óg Ó Ruairc.

President Eamon De Valera, with Martin Corry, right, at Cobh, Co Cork, in 1955. Corry claimed he was responsible for the execution of Edward Parsons but new evidence casts doubt on his claim.

The recent release of a missing persons file has shed new light on the disappearance of William Edward Parsons, a teenager, who was killed by the IRA in Cork in March 1922.