Joseph Lennon, PhD, “Famine Memories: Terence MacSwiney’s 1920 Hunger Strike”
Joseph Lennon, PhD, “Famine Memories: Terence MacSwiney’s 1920 Hunger Strike”
One hundred years ago, in 1920, daily newspapers around the world told the story of the starvation of a man. That man, Terence MacSwiney, the Lord Mayor of Cork, eventually died in England’s Brixton prison after a seventy-four day fast. The release of his corpse, his funeral, and a series of international commemorations held the