Francis Xavier Flood was a 1st Lieutenant in the Dublin Active Service Brigade during the Irish War of Independence.
11 Facts About Frank Flood
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Frank Flood was executed by the British authorities in Mountjoy Prison and was one of the men commonly referred to as the Forgotten Ten.
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Frank Flood was born at 6 Emmet Street, Dublin on 1 December 1901.
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Frank Flood was the son of policeman John Flood and Sarah Murphy.
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Frank Flood was one of eight brothers and he had one sister, most of whom were heavily involved in the Independence movement.
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Frank Flood attended secondary school in O'Connell Schools, Dublin and won a scholarship to study engineering at University College Dublin where he was an active member of UCD's famous debating forum, the Literary and Historical Society.
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Frank Flood passed his first and second year engineering exams with distinction.
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Frank Flood was captured, together with Thomas Bryan, Patrick Doyle, Bernard Ryan and Dermot O'Sullivan while attacking a lorry-load of Dublin Metropolitan Police at Drumcondra on 21 January 1921.
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Frank Flood was a close personal friend of Kevin Barry, and asked that he be buried as close as possible to him.
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Frank Flood had taken part in the September 1920 ambush during which Barry had been arrested and had been involved in the planning of several aborted attempts to rescue him.
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Frank Flood would remain buried at Mountjoy Prison, together with nine other executed members of the Irish Republican Army known as The Forgotten Ten, until he was given a state funeral and reburied at Glasnevin Cemetery on 14 October 2001 after an intense campaign led by the National Graves Association.