Sale of Terence MacSwiney’s wedding present

Des O’Sullivan reports on an inscribed silver dish ring by Egan’s of Cork.

An inscribed silver dish ring given as a wedding present to Terence MacSwiney comes up at Fonsie Mealy’s Centenary Sale in Castlecomer on April 23.

The pierced dish ring was a gift from the girls of St Ita’s, the independent school in Cork founded by his sisters Máire and Áine MacSwiney after Máire was dismissed from her teaching post following her arrest during the Easter Rising.