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Photography of Mac Swiney Family in Cork

Museum Opening

John Francis O’Connor was born on 13 Feb 1883 in County Cork into a devout Catholic family. He entered the Capuchin novitiate on 1 October 1899 and received the religious name of Dominic. In response to a call from Cardinal Michael Logue, Archbishop…

After enduring a long, slow and torturous death over the preceding 74 days, Terence MacSwiney, the Lord Mayor of Cork, Teachta Dála for the Mid-Cork Constituency of the 1st Dáil Éireann and O/C of the Cork No. 1 Brigade of the IRA, finally achieved…

Principles of Freedom (Terence MacSwiney) 1921 - 2nd edition

Principles of Freedom (Terence MacSwiney) 1921 - 2nd edition

Principles of Freedom (Terence MacSwiney) 1921 1st edition

Seadna (an t-Athair Peadar Ua Laoghaire) - Personal copy of Terence MacSwiney -inscribed

"Silver dish ring, made by Cork silversmith firm Egans in 191; a wedding gift to Terence MacSwiney and his wife Muriel Murphy on the occasion of their wedding on June 9, 1917 - from the girls of Saint Íte's school."

This silver dish ring is a…

Souvenir Album presented to Mrs. Terence MacSwiney.