Mary MacSwiney
id:
mary-macswiney-178-319435
title:
Mary MacSwiney
text:
Mary MacSwiney was an Irish republican activist and politician, as well as a teacher. MacSwiney was thrust into both the national and international spotlight in 1920 when her brother Terence MacSwiney, then the Lord Mayor of Cork, went on hunger strike in protest of British policy in Ireland. Mary, alongside her sister-in-law Muriel MacSwiney kept daily vigil over Terence and effectively became spokespeople for the campaign. Terence MacSwiney would ultimately die in October 1920, and from then o
brand slug:
wiki
category slug:
encyclopedia
description:
Irish politician and teacher (1872–1942)
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_MacSwiney
date created:
2006-09-04T22:01:08Z
date modified:
2024-09-04T09:31:52Z
main entity:
{"identifier":"Q1547208","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1547208"}
image:
{"content_url":"https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/99/Mary_MacSwiney_head_and_shoulders.jpg","width":1243,"height":1656}
fields total:
13
integrity:
16