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Feb 18, 2023 · The story of Terence MacSwiney, second republican lord mayor of Cork is legendary. After his arrest in August 1920, MacSwiney’s agonising 74-day hunger strike to the death was a key event ...
Mar 27, 2019 · Terence MacSwiney's funeral in Cork where more than 100,000 turned out to pay their respects. Some 30,000 people filed past MacSwiney’s body in St George’s Cathedral, ...
Terence Joseph MacSwiney (28 March 1879 – 25 October 1920) was an Irish playwright, author and politician. He was elected as Sinn Fein Lord Mayor of Cork, during the Irish War of Independence, in 1920. He was arrested by the British on charges of sedition and imprisoned in Brixton prison in England. His death there in October 1920 after 74
Ireland went into mourning when MacSwiney died on the 74th day of his fast in Brixton Prison. He had become a symbol of a new nation—disciplined, hard, clear, unsentimental, uncompromising, a conscious using of vigour to build up strength. MacSwiney had been second-in-command of the Cork Brigade of the Volunteers at the time of the 1916 Rising.
Muriel MacSwiney. Muriel MacSwiney ( née Murphy, 8 June 1892 – 26 October 1982) was an Irish republican and left-wing activist, and the first woman to be given the Freedom of New York City. She was the wife of Terence MacSwiney, mother of Máire MacSwiney Brugha and sister-in-law of Mary MacSwiney. The 1920 hunger strike of her husband ...
Terence MacSwiney was born in Cork in 1879. His interests in Irish history, culture, and language, led to him becoming a writer. In 1901 he was a founding member of the Celtic Literary Society, and in 1908 he co-founded, with Daniel Corkery, the Cork Dramatic Society, which produced many of his plays. MacSwiney also published poetry and essays.
Oct 24, 2020 · Republicans hoped MacSwiney’s three funerals would have a similar impact. Mourners in Boston, Chicago, Melbourne, Newcastle upon Tyne, and Manchester held symbolic, mock funerals with empty ...
