Word: macswiney
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...post-mortems reveal no single cause of death. Rather, the young bodies simply wither away. It is a terrible way to die, bodies slowly wearing out, time and faces blurring. The prisoners strengthen themselves from time to time by recalling the words of a famous I.R.A. hunger striker, Terence MacSwiney, who fasted for 74 days in 1920 before dying...
...those who can inflict the most," said MacSwiney, "but those who can suffer the most who will conquer." British authorities, for their part, are convinced the Irish cannot continue indefinitely to sacrifice their young. "They just can't keep it up," says Humphrey Atkins, Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, a man who sounds as dogged as the H-blockers...
...that time MacStiofáin, in the tenth day of his strike, was described by his wife Mary as a "dying man." MacStiofáin, boasted Provisional leaders, would become a martyr, like Terence MacSwiney, the lord mayor of Cork, who was arrested at an I.R.A. meeting in 1920 and died in a British prison in the 74th day of a hunger strike. In MacStiofáin's place, they predicted, "a hundred other MacStiofáins" would rise...
Died. Mary MacSwiney, Irish Sinn Feinnef, sister of Terence MacSwiney, onetime mayor of Cork; after long illness; in Cork. A would-be Irish Joan of Arc, she lived through many a hunger strike, unlike her brother, who died of his in 1920. To the bitter end she spurned Eamon de Valera and his compromise Free State...
...perfectly to cash in on the mounting antipathy to the Versailles Treaty and the League of Nations. The suppression of the Dail Eireann by the British shocked Americans who thought they had fought the war for the self-determination of peoples. The hunger strike and eventual death of Terence MacSwiney, Lord Mayor of Cork, brought pro-Irish feeling to white heat and overshadowed for a time the U. S. Presidential contest...