He continued to act there for the next five years, also appearing in Dublin at the Crow Street Theatre.
[1] When his father departed for London in 1766, he left Thomas to manage the Cork Theatre, something that proved controversial with the local newspapers.
Angered by an attack on his acting skills, Barry sued one of the publishers involved for libel but the case was dismissed.
[2] Having made many enemies in his native Cork, the following year Thomas Barry left for London and in the summer of 1767 he joined his father and stepmother Ann Dancer at the Haymarket Theatre where he appeared in Venice Preserved, Jane Shore, Theodosius, King Lear and The Countess of Salisbury.
He then travelled to Dublin, but grew increasingly ill and died in the city in April 1768.