- Frank Flood
Frank Flood was a 1st Lieutenant in the Dublin Active Service Brigade during the
Irish War of Independence . He was captured, together with Thomas Bryan, Patrick Doyle, andBernard Ryan , while attacking a lorry-load ofDublin Metropolitan Police atDrumcondra on January 21, 1921. [ [ [http://www.taoiseach.gov.ie/index.asp?locID=383&docID=511] ] ; "see" also [ [http://www.dcu.ie/~foxs/irhist/March%201921%20-%2014%20-%20Mountjoy%20Hangingsl.htm] ] . On February 24, 1921, Flood was charged byCourt-martial , with high treason/levying war against the King, and was executed on March 14, 1921 atSummerhill Parade ,Dublin . [ [http://www.taoiseach.gov.ie/index.asp?locID=383&docID=511] ]Events Following Execution
Flood was a close personal friend of
Kevin Barry , and asked that he be buried as close as possible to him. [ [http://www.taoiseach.gov.ie/index.asp?locID=383&docID=511] ] Flood would remain buried atMountjoy Prison , together with nine other executed members of theIrish Republican Army known asThe Forgotten Ten , until he was reburied with full military honors atGlasnevin Cemetery on October 14, 2001 after an intense campaign lead by theNational Graves Association . [ [http://www.nga.ie/history.htm] ]References
External links
* White, Gerry; O'Shea, Brendan; Youngshusband, William. Irish Volunteer Soldier 1913-23, p. 29. Osprey Publishing, 2003. ISBN 1841766852, 9781841766850
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