Terence MacSwiney wedding gift on public display for first time

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.

The silver dish ring made by famous Cork silversmiths William Egan & Sons is being displayed at the Independence Museum in Kilmurry, Co Cork, to coincide with the 100th anniversary of the wedding.

MacSwiney and Muriel Murphy married in a small English village on June 9, 1917, and the present was from the students at St Íta’s School, founded nine months earlier in Cork City by the groom’s sisters, Mary and Annie MacSwiney.