Crawford exhibition puts a modern twist on Terence MacSwiney's legacy 

The online exhibition at the Cork gallery combines MacSwiney family artifacts,  representations of the independence hero and contemporary takes on issues around nationhood, refugees, etc 

Citizen Nowhere, Citizen Somewhere looks at the legacy of Terence MacSwiney. 

When Cork Lord Mayor Terence MacSwiney died after 74 days of hunger strike in Brixton Prison in October 1920, the world responded with outrage. In Barcelona, 500 protesters stoned the British Consulate after being denied an audience with the consul. Catalan women wore mourning. In the US, strikes were mounted in busy sea-ports. Empty-cask funerals were held in Manchester, Boston, Melbourne and Chicago amongst others.

MacSwiney’s posthumous collection of essays, Principles of Freedom, would go on to inspire many revolutionaries in their own struggle for an autonomous state, including Marcus Garvey, Ho Chi Minh and Baghat Singh. But the very same post-WWI frenzy of small nation founding gave rise to the borders we live with, or sometimes live despite, today.