Playwright, poet, writer of pamphlets on Irish history, Lord Mayor of Cork. He died on a hunger strike during two years' imprisonment in Brixton Prison.∼In the 1918 general election, MacSwiney was returned unopposed to the first Dáil Éireann as Sinn Féin representative for Mid Cork, succeeding the Nationalist MP D. D. Sheehan. After the murder of his friend Tomás Mac Curtain, the Lord Mayor of Cork on 20 March 1920, MacSwiney was elected as Lord Mayor. On 12 August 1920, he was arrested in Cork for possession of “seditous articles and documents", and also possession of a cipher key. He was summarily tried by a court on 16 August and sentenced to two years' imprisonment at Brixton Prison in England.
Food was often placed near him to persuade him to give up a the hunger-strike. Attempts at force-feeding MacSwiney were undertaken in the final days of his strike. On 20 October 1920 he fell into a coma and died five days later after 73 days on hunger strike.
Food was often placed near him to persuade him to give up a the hunger-strike. Attempts at force-feeding MacSwiney were undertaken in the final days of his strike. On 20 October 1920 he fell into a coma and died five days later after 73 days on hunger strike.
Playwright, poet, writer of pamphlets on Irish history, Lord Mayor of Cork. He died on a hunger strike during two years' imprisonment in Brixton Prison.∼In the 1918 general election, MacSwiney was returned unopposed to the first Dáil Éireann as Sinn Féin representative for Mid Cork, succeeding the Nationalist MP D. D. Sheehan. After the murder of his friend Tomás Mac Curtain, the Lord Mayor of Cork on 20 March 1920, MacSwiney was elected as Lord Mayor. On 12 August 1920, he was arrested in Cork for possession of “seditous articles and documents", and also possession of a cipher key. He was summarily tried by a court on 16 August and sentenced to two years' imprisonment at Brixton Prison in England.
Food was often placed near him to persuade him to give up a the hunger-strike. Attempts at force-feeding MacSwiney were undertaken in the final days of his strike. On 20 October 1920 he fell into a coma and died five days later after 73 days on hunger strike.
Food was often placed near him to persuade him to give up a the hunger-strike. Attempts at force-feeding MacSwiney were undertaken in the final days of his strike. On 20 October 1920 he fell into a coma and died five days later after 73 days on hunger strike.
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