100 YEARS AGO: Terence MacSwiney dies on hunger strike

By Joseph E.A. Connell Jr. In 1920 the tone of the War of Independence changed drastically. The Dublin execution of an eighteen-year-old medical student, Kevin Barry, for killing a British soldier, the shooting of the lord mayor of Cork, Thomas MacCurtain, in front of his wife and children, and the arrest and death on hunger ... Read more

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