Terence MacSwiney: Tributes on the centenary of the death of the Cork Lord Mayor

Lord Mayor Terence MacSwiney died on hunger strike today in Brixton prison one hundred years ago. University College Cork (UCC) laid a wreath at Cork Men’s Gaol to commemorate his death and remember all those who suffered during a tumultuous period of Irish history. Picture: Tomas Tyner, UCC.

Today is the centenary of the death of former Cork Lord Mayor Terence MacSwiney on hunger strike in Brixton prison.

In the autumn of 1920, the hunger strike of Terence MacSwiney in Brixton Prison and of eleven republican prisoners inside Cork Men’s Gaol riveted a global audience.