Kevin Barry - Aftermath

Aftermath

The only full-length biography of Kevin Barry was written by his nephew, the journalist Donal O'Donovan, and published in 1989 as Kevin Barry and his Time.

Kevin Barry is remembered in a well-known song about his imprisonment and execution, written shortly after his death and still sung today. The tune to "Kevin Barry" was taken from the sea-shanty "Rolling Home"

World famous artists such as Leonard Cohen and Paul Robeson have covered the song.

Barry's execution also inspired Thomas MacGreevy's surrealist poem "Homage to Hieronymus Bosch". MacGreevy had unsuccessfully petitioned the Provost of Trinity College Dublin, John Henry Bernard, to make representations on Barry's behalf.

A commemorative stamp was issued by An Post to mark the 50th anniversary of Barry's death in 1970.

The University College Dublin branch of Fianna Fáil is named the Kevin Barry Cumann in his honour. Also a GAA club was named after him in county Tyrone called Derrylaughan Kevin Barry's in the parish of clonoe.

In 1934 a large stained glass window commemorating Barry was unveiled in Earlsfort Terrace, then the principal campus of University College Dublin. It was designed by Richard King of the Harry Clarke Studio. In 2007 UCD completed its relocation to the Belfield campus some four miles away and a fund was collected by graduates to defray the cost (estimated at close to €250,000) of restoring and moving the window to this new location.

A grandnephew is the Irish historian Eunan O'Halpin.