Irish patriot Kevin Barry was eighteen years old when he was executed on November 1st 1920 for his part in an IRA ambush which killed three young British soldiers aged fifteen, nineteen and twenty. Here former IRA volunteer Shane Paul O'Doherty tells the truest story of Kevin's arrest, imprisonment and execution and details how Kevin's intense Catholic faith prepared him to die bravely and with a clear conscience.About the Author: Shane Paul O'Doherty is an Irishman who, in his young teenage years, became an IRA volunteer in Derry, Northern Ireland, intending to fight for Ireland's freedom. He spent 5 years in the IRA and became a leading bomber whose London letter and parcel bomb attacks in the 1970s made world headlines and eventually resulted in his arrest and imprisonment for over 14 years. During his incarceration, Shane had a profound conversion back to his Catholic faith and wrote letters of apology to his victims and called publicly on the IRA to give up its armed struggle and to enter democratic politics, which it later did. After his release from prison, Shane read for an English degree at Trinity College Dublin, later studied computer science at University College, Dublin and then philosophy at the National University of Ireland, Maynooth (where he was a seminarian for a number of years), concluding that round of studies with a Masters in Computing from the Dublin Institute of Technology. Shane's autobiography The Volunteer, A Former IRA Man's True Story was initially published by HarperCollins and became an instant bestseller.