The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1920-10-26
M'SWINEY dies in
BRIXTON PRISON
Lord Mayor of Cork Will Be Buried
Beside His Predecessor in Office.
BY The Associated Press).

BY The Associated Press).
London. Oct. 25.-Terence Mac
Swiney, lord mayor of Cork died at
Brixton prison, this city, at $40
o'clock this morning. His death fol-
lowed a hunger strike of more than
seventy three days, eclipsing any in
the annals of the medical world.
MacSwiney, who had been uncon-
scious for several days, did not re-
cover his faculties before he died.
Father Dominic, his private chaplain,
and his brother, John MacSwiney,
were with him when the end came.
Father Dominic was at the prison all
night and did not leave until several
hours after MacSwiney breathed his
| last.
/ John MasSwiney and the chaplain
who had been waiting down stairs
in the prison were told by prison Off
Gals at ABS o'clock that they should
go to the mayors bedside, as they
thought death was approaching. The
brother asked for the privilege of
communicating with other relatives
who were not present but the officials.
it is said refused him the use of a
| telephone.
After the prisoners death, his
brother and the chaplain were not
permitted to leave Brixton prison until
/ 6:15 o'clock. John MacSwiney immed-
| lately conveyed word to the widow of
the lord mayor, who was staying at
a West End hotel with Mr.. and Mrs
| O'Brien, the former being the London
executive of the Irish Self Determine
ton League.
| Mrs. MacSwiney, accompanied by
her parents and the Misses Annie and
Mary MacSwiney, sisters of the lord
mayor arrived at Brixton prison at
$50 o'clock.
| News OF MacSwiney's death had not
become known in the district around
| Brixton prison until after o'clock
The usual large contingent of police
was on duty inside the prison grounds
to prevent any demonstration but out
side and along the road leading to the
rain highway, there were no unusual
signs of activity No civilians were
| awaiting there, they usually did in
| the early days of the lord mayors
hunger strike.
1t is probable the inquest will be
held at the prison today, after which
the body will be turned over to rela-
| tives.
Terence MacSwiney was 40 years
old and was one of the most promi-
nent Sim Feiners. He started life
as a diapers assistant, but became a
poet author and a playwright before
taking up politics seriously. Later he
became violently anti English.
| While in Wakefield Jail, Yorkshire,
in 1916, he met Muriel Murphy. daugh-
| ter of wealthy Cork distiller, who
visited the Jail, and shortly after they
were married, despite much opposi-
| ton.
MacSwiney was elected as a Sim
Fein member from Cork to the Brit
| ish parliament in 1918, but never took
his seat. He was present at the first
| session of the Irish parliament in 1919
when the establishment of the repub-
lie was confirmed and was elected
lord mayor of Cork in 1920.
For various political offenses he had
been in jail, with brief intervals of
liberty, since January. 1916, and in
october, 1917, secured his release from
| Jail by hunger striking
/ MacSwiney's grave will be along
side that of his official predecessor,
Lord Mayor Thomas MacCurtain, who
was shot in his own home in Cork on
March 20. MacSwiney will be the
fourth to be buried in this plot, the
others being MacCurtain, Sheamus
McGuirke, who was taken out of bed
| in his Galway home and shot, and
jeremiah McNesty, who participated
| in the Easter Rising Dublin in 1916.
These arrangements are contingent
| upon the possibility of government
| interference which. however is re-
garded as unlikely. The progress of
the funeral party from Dublin to Cork
will be marked by series of services
at all the populous centers en- route.
Final obsequies will be held in Cork
Cathedral and interment be made in
/ st. Fin Bars cemetery in Cork. The
grave in which MacSwiney will be
buried is known as Republican Plot
| which has been reserved for Irish
nationalist soldiers.
| Ottawa, Ont, Oct. 25-Hfgh requiem
masses for Lord Mayor MacSwiney of
Cork, who died today in Brixton
Prison, London, will be held in ST.
Brigade's church here next wednes-
day. Services will be under the au-
spices of Thomas Davis, Ottawa
branch of the Irish Self Determine
ton League.
666 quickly relieves Colds and