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, and Bernard Ryan, while attacking a lorry-load of Dublin Metropolitan Police at Drumcondra 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 by Court-martial, with high treason/levying war against the King, and was executed on March 14, 1921 at Summerhill 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 at Mountjoy Prison, together with nine other executed members of the Irish Republican Army known as The Forgotten Ten, until he was reburied with full military honors at Glasnevin Cemetery on October 14, 2001 after an intense campaign lead by the National 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