Meda Ryan Lecture: Tom Barry & the IRA

62 minute talk given to the 1916-21 club on Pearse Street

Meda Ryan is a historian and the author of "Tom Barry: IRA Freedom Fighter" which focuses on the flying column headed by Tom Barry in Cork during the Irish War of Independence from 1919 to 1921. In this 62 minute lecture given to the 1916-21 club in Dublin, she talks about Tom Barry's life and events which happened during both the War of Independence and the subsequent Civil War (over the partition of Ireland into separate north and south states) that remain controversial to this day.