Terence MacSwiney play watched by grandson 80 years after mother played the lead role

A Terence MacSwiney play was watched over the weekend by his grandson — almost 80 years after his own mother played a lead role in the last Cork production.

The Revolutionist was published in 1914 by the dramatist and poet who was to become a TD, lord mayor of Cork, and revolutionary military leader.

But it was not staged until a 1921 Abbey Theatre production just months after MacSwiney died on hunger strike in England.