A collection of material relating to Kevin Barry, who was executed for his part in the killing of three British soldiers in 1920. The collection includes material associated with his days at Belvedere College, his year as a medical student in UCD, and his brief time in custody at Mountjoy Prison before execution. The majority of the collection is composed of material gathered by Kathy Barry Maloney, Barry's sister, after his death.

Typescript copy of considerations submitted to the Taoiseach by Albert Wood KC and Sean MacBride BL as to why the sentence of death to be carried out on Thomas MacCurtain (son of Thomas MacCurtain, Lord Mayor of Cork, murdered 1920) for the murder of a detective garda should be set aside.

Copies of charge sheets, witness statements, summary of evidence delivered to the court martial of Barry for the murder of Privates Whitehead, Washington, and Humphries at Church Street Dublin (15 October 1920); includes detailed statements from soldiers present at the ambush and military medical personnel who received the dead and wounded at the Richmond Hospital; also includes the cross examination of witnesses conducted by Barry himself. There is a second copy of each of the charge sheets and statements.

Photostat copy of sworn statement made by Barry at Mountjoy Prison, before Myles Keogh a Justice of the Peace outlining in detail alleged ill treatment during his initial interrogation after arrest (20 September 1920); and the original envelope in which the original was kept with an enclosed note by Barry Moloney outlining how she had it returned to her during the truce (25 July 1960).