The Indian Ambassador to Ireland, Sandeep Kumar, paid tribute to MacSwiney in City Hall as his embassy staged a showcase of his country’s food, dance and culture to mark India’s Republic Day.

The school which has produced more Lords Mayor of Cork than any other is set to honour three iconic past-pupils - two of whom died in the struggle for Irish independence and the brave man who succeeded them.

Cork will be the central focus for a series of national events this year to commemorate the start of the country's battle for independence.

Details have been announced of a special local authority centenary commemorative meeting in Cork next month to mark a key moment in the birth of the nation.

A row has erupted over the branding of Cork’s MacCurtain St as part of the Victorian Quarter ahead of War of Independence centenary commemorations next year.

A long-running campaign to get a posthumous medal for an IRA Volunteer has finally come to a successful conclusion.

Students in Cork are staging an exhibition exploring the modern-day relationship between writing and the letter, featuring some well-known faces, writes Eoin English

British intelligence was very good at identifying Republicans who were interned without trial in Spike Island in 1921.

Joe Murphy was one of three IRA Volunteers who died on hunger strike in jails in 1920.

As the Atlas Of The Irish Revolution hits bookshops, contributor Oliver O’Hanlon looks at the coverage of the conflict by overseas artists and journalists.

A magnificent gift which was given to former Lord Mayor of Cork Terence MacSwiney and his wife on their day of their wedding has gone on public display for the first time.

Many people played a role in Henry Ford setting up the plant in his ancestral home in Cork, and one of the unsung heroes may well have been the Lord Mayor of Cork when the factory began production in 1919, William F. O’Connor.

Paddy Armstrong’s account of his wrongful imprisonment as part of the Guildford Four is harrowing. As a politically disengaged teenager of the ’70s, he was always an unlikely IRA man, as Anne Lucey discovers.

A rare Spanish language silver medal which was struck in Argentina almost a century ago in honour of republican Lord Mayor of Cork, Terence MacSwiney, is to be donated to the people of Cork.

Twenty years after the killing of Det Jerry McCabe, the survivor of the IRA attack Det Ben O’Sullivan says he has learnt to live with it, writes Mid-West Correspondent Jimmy Woulfe

RISING MEMORABILIA

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

Catalonia’s intense interest in the 1920 hunger strike and death of Cork’s lord mayor will be the subject of a seminar in the city next week.

Not only did Irish nationalists and republicans respect the courage of those who fought at Gallipoli, but at least one Englishman, an officer veteran of that campaign, walked behind uniformed officers of the First Cork Brigade IRA, in the London stage of the funeral of Terence MacSwiney, who died on hunger strike in Brixton Prison in October, 1920.

This early Irish Georgian dining table is at Lynes and Lynes in Carrigtwohill on July 26. Also up for sale is a copy of ‘The Music of Freedom’ by patriot Terence MacSwiney.

Possibly the last letter written by Cork lord mayor Tomás MacCurtain before his death will go on display near his Blackpool home where he was murdered in 1920.

Six-page letter from Annie MacSwiney, written from Brixton Prison on Aug 28, 1920 in regard to her brother, Terence MacSwiney.

A previously unknown letter written by Lord Mayor of Cork Terence MacSwiney, who died on hunger strike in a British jail in 1920, could fetch up to €2,000 at auction next week.

A handwritten letter penned in Irish by former Cork lord mayor Terence MacSwiney could fetch up to €1,500 at an antique book fair this weekend.

Gordon Ramsay is to make a new TV show inside a women's prison.

Terence MacSwiney: The Hunger Strike That Rocked an Empire

JOHN Connolly, 72, was ten years old when he laid eyes on the photograph of Terence MacSwiney’s comrades, which was published last week in the Irish Examiner.

A CITY’S martyred lords mayor were remembered last night in the first of a series of civic events marking the 90th anniversary of their deaths.

“IT is not those who can inflict the most, but those that can suffer the most who will prevail” – the words of Terence MacSwiney, playwright, author, politician, revolutionary and martyr.

IRA terrorists behind a two-year bombing campaign in the 1970s compiled lists of hundreds of possible targets, including British MPs, soldiers and Buckingham Palace, newly released files revealed today.

The British authorities have dropped plans to extradite two IRA men who escaped from London's Brixton prison 18 years ago, it was confirmed today.

British authorities have dropped plans to extradite two IRA men who escaped from London’s Brixton prison 18 years ago, it was confirmed today.

The last two men serving sentences for the killing of Detective Garda Jerry McCabe 13 years ago have walked free from jail this morning.

The last two men serving sentences for the killing of Detective Garda Jerry Mc Cabe 13 years ago are due to walk free this morning.

WREATHS were laid on the graves of a city’s two martyred lord mayors yesterday to mark their immense contribution to the Irish state.

A Belfast dissident republican became the first person to be convicted by a Dublin court today for the murder of a man in Belfast last year.

I FIND it hard to fathom why the Lord Mayor of Cork, Brian Bermingham, should wish to organise a concert in the City Hall in honour of Corkmen who died in British uniform in the First World War. Moreover, the timing (November 8) makes the concert part of a bigger Remembrance Day/Poppy Day ceremony — a blanket commemoration of all British regiments and campaigns.

A HISTORIC building — a symbol of one of the country’s top hurling schools, which produced an All-Ireland-winning taoiseach — is to be transformed into a cultural centre.

A Belfast man today opted to be tried in Dublin under rarely used anti-terrorist laws for a Continuity IRA linked murder carried out in Belfast.

A REPORT on Irish prisoners abroad has recommended the establishment of a special unit within the Department of Foreign Affairs to deal with the consular needs of such inmates.

HOURS before his execution, 1916 leader Padraig Pearse gave final instructions about his business and personal affairs.

TWO men targeted by the Irish and British Governments under international anti-terrorist measures yesterday lost their European legal battle to be removed from a list of suspects.

RUAIRI BRUGHA, the former Fianna Fáil TD and MEP who died yesterday, was described by Taoiseach Bertie Ahern as a person with a real passion for politics and a deep sense of patriotism.

IT HAS come to my attention that Cork City Council intends to rededicate Terence McSwiney Quay after our martyred lord mayor who died on hunger strike in Brixton Prison.