What is recorded here
William Bernard Barry is a birthplace in County Mayo, Ireland. Perhaps the boy who left there at fourteen carried salt water in his lungs and never forgot the shape of a room he could no longer enter. Maybe the chambers he walked in Washington still smelled of peat smoke, and every decision he made was an argument with a ghost he could not name.
Why this person is known: American politician (1902-1946)
- Birthplace
- County Mayo
Places near here
Clydagh Bridgebridge · 1130 yd
bridgebridge · 1.1 mi
IndicatedFairy fort / ringfort · 1.1 mi
Mass-rock in CarrownaltoreMass-rock · 1.5 mi
River WoodWood · 1.9 mi
CastleCastle, unclassified · 1.9 mi
National Museum of Ireland, Country LifeMuseum · 2.0 mi
Sunken GardenWood · 2.0 mi
Castle in RuinsCastle, unclassified · 2.8 mi
Battle of CastlebarMajor battlefield · 3.4 mi
Saint John Baptist de La SalleMemorial · 3.5 mi
1798 MemorialMemorial · 3.7 miOther information
Photo: US Government Printing Office · Public domain