A memorial plaque to one of the "Forgotten 10" of the Irish War of Independence has been revealed in Dublin.
Thomas Bryan, 24, was among a group of young volunteers who on January 1 1921, set out to ambush Black and Tans as they travelled into Dublin city from Gormanstown. The electrician will be commemorated on a plaque at 14 Henrietta Street.
Thomas Bryan was only recently married, and the pension application, submitted by his grieving family, reveals the poverty in which his parents continued to live at 14 Henrietta Street in the aftermath of his death. Tried and found guilty of High Treason, four of the men, Patrick Doyle, 29, Francis Xavier Flood, 19, Thomas Bryan, 24, and Bernard ‘Bertie’ Ryan, 21, were hanged at Mountjoy Prison.
