Terence MacSwiney’s skills key in building Cork brigade

1,000 Irish Volunteers answered the call and turned out across Co Cork on Easter Sunday, writes Niall Murray

THE fact that more than 1,000 members of the Irish Volunteers turned out across Co Cork on Easter Sunday, 1916, is testament to the organisational skills of Terence MacSwiney.

From a movement that looked doomed to oblivion when most of the organisation’s members backed the breakaway National Volunteers after the outbreak of war, he helped build Cork’s to one of the country’s best-organised brigades.