The story of Tom Barrys life peppered by his battles with the State & Church & his constant endeavours to obtain an All Ireland Republic makes him a unique & important figure of Irish history. In 1949 when he addressed huge crowds in New York Chicago Pittsburgh & Boston his voice rang out
- My one aim is to unite the Irish people
- one race... The Border will not fade away or the Partition will not be ended until such time as the united strength is used in a supreme effort to get rid of it. It details his involvement on the fringes of the Treaty negotiations; his Republican activities during the Civil War; his engagement in the cease-fire/dump-arms deal of 1923; his term as the IRAs Chief-of-Staff & his participation in IRA conflicts in the 1930s 1940s 1950s right up to his death in 1980.