Cork to receive rare Terence MacSwiney medal

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.

Professor Dermot Keogh, an emeritus professor of history at UCC, came across the medal while researching his latest book, Argentina and the Irish Revolution, which was published in Buenos Aires in September, and which will appear in an English edition next year.

The medal, struck in 1920, was presented to Prof Keogh by Eduardo Clancy, an architect from San Antonio de Areco, who was left the medal by his father.