The subject of Thomas Bryan, executed by the British in 1921, came up on the TV programme Who Do You Think You Are looking into the family of Boy George.
The following Irish Times article seems to imply there was some issue re Thomas Bryan's father in law, Joseph Glynn, re WW1.
Irish Times 25th July 2018
It appears that Joseph Glynn served with the Royal Dublin Fusiliers and that his daughter Annie Christina Glynn was born in Gibraltar as a result of a posting there. The family are then in Dover in the 1901 census for England.
Joseph Glynn had married Mary Jane Nolan in January 1897, both living in Dominick Place.
https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/marriage_returns/marriages_1897/10443/5803005.pdf
Their first child, Patrick Christopher Glynn, was born in December 1897 with the address as Dominick Place.
https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/birth_returns/births_1897/02107/1802203.pdf
Ancestry shows that Joseph died in 1902 in Dover aged 30. Presumably buried somewhere in or near Dover. Annie Glynn/Bryan was also to die aged 30.
Joseph's widow, Mary Jane Glynn nee Nolan married Joseph's brother Richard in 1907. Richard was also a soldier, serving in the Royal Dublin Fusiliers during the Boer War and then re-enlisted with the Royal Munster Fusiliers for WW1. Richard survived WW1.
He was born 25th July 1875 and was 18 when he first enlisted in the Royal Dublin Fusiliers, 22nd October 1894 as number 5274. He served at home, East Indies (6/10/96 to 17/5/97), South Africa (18/5/97 to 11/2/1902) and then East Indies again (12/2/03 to 8/11/03).
He was awarded the Queens South Africa medal with 6 clasps and Kings South Africa Medal with 2 clasps. He left the army after 12 years service. He re-enlisted in 1914 as G/1574 with the Royal Munster Fusiliers and was in Italy 9/11/17 to 8/3/1919. His service record shows his address in Dublin as 75 Upper Dominick Street.
The family is listed in the 1911 census for Ireland living at 69 Upper Dominick Street.
http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1911/Dublin/Inns_Quay/Dominick_Street__Upper/39102/
Annie married Thomas Bryan (Brien on the marriage certificate) and lists Joseph as her father with no indication that he was deceased.
https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/marriage_returns/marriages_1920/09280/5359872.pdf
She records the family living at 75 Upper Dominick Street and this tallies with the address that Richard Glynn gives in his WW1 service record (available to view on Ancestry).
Thomas Bryan's father James worked at 171 North King Street for Dunne's butchers. This address was smack in the middle of the North King Street murders, cited as the probable location of the troops that shot and killed William O'Neill. It was next door to no 172 where O'Neill's brother John Walsh was murdered. The Hickeys were murdered on the other side of the building in 170 North King Street.
Thomas Dunne seems to have been the landlord for number 173 North King St
http://centenaries.nationalarchives.ie/reels/plic/PLIC_1_2022.pdf
and submitted a claim for damages at 171 North King St
http://centenaries.nationalarchives.ie/reels/plic/PLIC_1_820.pdf
The Bryan family were living in North King Street in the 1901 and 1911 census
http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1901/Dublin/Inns_Quay/King_Street_North/1282789/
http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1911/Dublin/Arran_Quay/King_Street__North/59511/
The 1911 census shows that the parents has 9 children but only 3 had survived as at 1911.
Thomas Bryan, Annie Glynn and the parents of Thomas Bryan later appear to be linked to 14 Henrietta Street.
Thomas Bryan was executed by hanging on the 14th March 1921 in Mountjoy Prison and became one of the "Forgotten 10".
Thomas was my grandad's cousin Edward Bryan
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