Identity of MacSwiney’s pallbearers sought

“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.

The son of a tobacco merchant was elected lord mayor of Cork during the War of Independence in 1920 and died on hunger strike in October of that year in Brixton Prison in England.

His portrait, and a painting of his funeral mass by John Lavery are exhibited in Cork’s Crawford Art Gallery.