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    Terence James MacSwiney (/məkˈswiːni/; Irish: Toirdhealbhach Mac Suibhne; 28 March 1879 – 25 October 1920) was an Irish playwright, author and politician...
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    wife of Terence MacSwiney, mother of Máire MacSwiney Brugha and sister-in-law of Mary MacSwiney. The 1920 hunger strike of her husband Terence became an...
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    well as a teacher. MacSwiney was thrust into both the national and international spotlight in 1920 when her brother Terence MacSwiney, then the Lord Mayor...
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  • (1885–1940), Irish Catholic priest and historian Seán MacSwiney, Irish Sinn Féin politician Terence MacSwiney (1879–1920), Sinn Féin Lord Mayor of Cork during...
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  • Máire MacSwiney Brugha (23 June 1918 – 20 May 2012) was an Irish activist who was the daughter of Terence MacSwiney and niece of Mary MacSwiney. As well...
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    the execution, only seven days after the death by hunger strike of Terence MacSwiney, the republican Lord Mayor of Cork, brought public opinion to a fever-pitch...
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  • Magee, American football player Terrence Malick, American filmmaker Terence MacSwiney (1879–1920), Lord Mayor of Cork who died on hunger strike during the...
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    horse was named after the Irish playwright, author and politician Terence MacSwiney. He was from the eighth crop of foals sired by New Approach, who won...
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    Cork city to John McSwiney, a tobacco manufacturer, and Mary Wilkinson. He was the brother of Terence MacSwiney and Mary MacSwiney. In 1914, he was in...
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  • strike in Brixton Prison, England, the Sinn Féin Lord Mayor of Cork, Terence MacSwiney dies. 1924 – The Zinoviev letter, which Zinoviev himself denied writing...
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  • bagpipes. In 1920 the song was played at the funeral of hunger striker, Terence MacSwiney. In the 1924 Olympics the song was used by Irish athletes in the absence...
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  • Terence MacSwiney. A week into the hunger strike, all but 11 of the hunger strikers were released or deported to prison in England, with MacSwiney being...
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    (1920–1922)). Mac Curtain is buried in St. Finbarr's Cemetery, Cork.[citation needed] His successor to the position of Lord Mayor, Terence MacSwiney, died while...
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    Rev. Patrick J. MacSwiney (frequently spelled McSwiney or MacSweeney, 16 March 1885 – 16 November 1940) was an Irish Catholic priest, Gaelic scholar,...
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    escalated the conflict in late 1920. First the Lord Mayor of Cork, Terence MacSwiney, died on hunger strike in Brixton Prison in London in October, while...
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    died on hunger strike prior to the 1981 strikes: Thomas Ashe (1917), Terence MacSwiney (1920), Michael Fitzgerald (1920), Joe Murphy (1920), Joseph Whitty...
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    were both from County Galway, Ireland, and named their son after Terence MacSwiney, the Lord Mayor of Cork who died on a hunger strike during the Irish...
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    Éireann at the 1973 general election. Ruairí married Máire MacSwiney, the daughter of Terence MacSwiney, the Republican Lord Mayor of Cork who had died on hunger...
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    June 2021. Mackay, James. Michael Collins: A Life. p. 38 Stewart, Anthony Terence Quincey. Michael Collins: The Secret File. p. 8 James Alexander Mackay...
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    over local IRA commanders such as Tom Barry, Liam Lynch in Cork and Seán Mac Eoin in Longford. The IRA claimed a total strength of 70,000, but only about...
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    the Sinn Féin Irish independence leader Terence MacSwiney. Later on the day of the interview, Aug. 12, MacSwiney was arrested for sedition by the British...
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    The 1920 Cork hunger strike took place at the same time as that of Terence MacSwiney, Lord Mayor of Cork. He came from the prominent Irish republican Crowley...
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  • independence. Seán Lemass Liam Lynch Dinny Lacey Seán MacBride Seán Mac Eoin Seán MacEntee Terence MacSwiney Tom Maguire Dick McKee Joe McKelvey Paddy McLogan...
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  • Valera Robert Emmet Cathal Goulding Thomas J. Kelly Seán Mac Stíofáin Seán MacBride Terence MacSwiney Constance Markievicz Bernadette Devlin Martin McGuinness...
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  • Cathoir of the Irish Times, Cleary defended Terence MacSwiney following his fatal hunger strike. MacSwiney had been elected Lord Mayor of Cork as an Irish...
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    family, the son of Ruairí Brugha and Máire MacSwiney Brugha and grandson of Terence MacSwiney and Muriel MacSwiney, Cathal Brugha and Caitlín Brugha. Brugha...
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    During the Anglo-Irish war, in October 1920, the Lord Mayor of Cork, Terence MacSwiney, died on hunger strike in Brixton prison. At the same time, the 1920...
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    candidates being elected for our constituencies in every instance. Terence MacSwiney followed Sheehan as MP for mid-Cork. In the changed political climate...
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  • support not seen since before 1916. Vice-president and de facto leader Mary MacSwiney announced that the party simply did not have the funds to contest the...
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  • Tomás Mac Curtain. Over 8,000 IRA Volunteers lined the route to St. Finbarr's Cemetery in Cork City. He was succeeded as Lord Mayor by Terence MacSwiney. 25...
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