Leslie de Barra

Leslie de Barra
Born
Leslie Price

(1893-01-09)9 January 1893
Died9 April 1984(1984-04-09) (aged 91)
NationalityIrish
Other namesLeslie Barry, Mrs Tom Barry

Leslie Mary de Barra (née Price; 9 January 1893 – 9 April 1984) was an Irish nationalist and republican active during the Easter Rising of 1916, the War of Independence and the Civil War, becoming Director of Cumann na mBan. She went on to be chairman and President of the Irish Red Cross.[1]

  1. ^ Turtle Bunbury (17 October 2014). The Glorious Madness – Tales of the Irish and the Great War: First-hand accounts of Irish men and women in the First World War. Gill Books. pp. 341–. ISBN 978-0-7171-6614-5.