Editing Redmond Barry (section)

==Early life==
Barry was the third son of [[Major-general (United Kingdom)|Major-General]] Henry Green Barry,<ref>{{Cite web |title=Calendar of Prisoners of the High Sheriff of County Cork at Summer Assizes |url=https://iar.ie/archive/calendar-prisoners-high-sheriff-county-cork-summer-assizes/ |access-date=2024-10-26 |website=Irish Archives Resource |language=en-US}}</ref> of [[Ballyclough House|Ballyclogh]] near [[Kilworth]], [[County Cork]], Ireland, and his wife Phoebe Drought, daughter of John Armstrong Drought and Letita Head. Barry had five brothers and six sisters and was educated at a military school, [[Hall Place]], near Bexley, [[Kent]].<ref>
{{cite news
|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article60446344
 |title=HIS HONOR SIR REDMOND BARRY, KT., M.A., LL.D., &c.
 |newspaper=[[Illustrated Australian News for Home Readers]]
 |location=Melbourne
 |date=29 February 1872
|accessdate=9 February 2012
|page=63 |publisher=National Library of Australia
}}</ref>

Returning to Ireland in 1829, he was unable to obtain a military commission so began his own further education. Following his own classics programme, translating classical authors into English verse, he furthered his scholarly pursuits by reading a variety of old and new writers.{{citation needed|date=March 2023}}

In 1832, he entered [[Trinity College Dublin]],<ref>"Alumni Dublinenses: a register of the students, graduates, professors and provosts of [[Trinity College Dublin|Trinity College in the University of Dublin]] (1593–1860)" [[George Dames Burtchaell]]/[[Thomas Ulick Sadleir]] p45: Dublin, Alex Thom and Co, 1935.</ref> graduated in 1835 with the usual Bachelor of Arts degree, and was [[called to the bar]] in Dublin in 1838.<ref>
{{cite news
|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article5964187
 |title=SIR REDMOND BARRY, K.C.M.G., LL.D.
 |newspaper=[[The Argus (Melbourne)|The Argus]]
 |location=Melbourne
 |date=24 November 1880
|accessdate=8 February 2012
|page=5
 |publisher=National Library of Australia}}</ref><ref name=EB>{{EB1911|wstitle=Barry, Sir Redmond}}</ref>

After his father's death, Barry sailed for [[Sydney]], capital of the British [[History of New South Wales|Colony of New South Wales]].
[[File:Ballyclough, Kilworth, Residence of J. R. Bury-Barry, J.P.jpg|thumb|[[Ballyclough House]], Kilworth. Birthplace of Redmond Barry]]