City’s tribute to martyred lords mayor

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.

Before the regular meeting of Cork City Council, the current Lord Mayor Cllr Michael O’Connell read extracts from the archived minutes of Corporation meetings from 1920 – the year when Tomás MacCurtain and Terence MacSwiney were elected lord mayor of the city.

MacCurtain, who was elected lord mayor in January 1920, was shot dead by members of the Royal Irish Constabulary at his home in Blackpool on March 20, his 36th birthday. His successor, MacSwiney died in Brixton prison in England after 74 days on hunger strike.