Terence MacSwiney
Irish politician and activist
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- In hunger strike: Irish nationalist movements
…had starved to death, including Terence MacSwiney, the lord mayor of Cork. MacSwiney, a local IRA leader, had been imprisoned for possession of seditious materials and a cipher key. He launched his strike one day after the other prisoners’ and was eventually transferred to Brixton Prison in London. Most of…
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