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MacSwiney, Terence

The Oxford Companion to Irish History | 2007 | 284 words | Copyright

MacSwiney, Terence (1879–1920). MacSwiney, who had succeeded Thomas MacCurtain as Sinn Féin lord mayor of Cork, died at Brixton prison, London, on 25 October on the 74th day of a hunger strike following his imprisonment for possessing a Royal Irish Constabulary cipher.

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