Via Sunday Miscellany on RTÉ Radio 1: Lourdes Mackey on how the world responded to the 1920 hunger strike of the Lord Mayor of Cork, Terence MacSwiney...
A surge of shame swept England as one hundred thousand Corkonians lined the streets of his native city, on the Eve of All Saints Day, to bid Terence MacSwiney goodbye. His endurance motivated many future revolutionaries, including members of the then fledgling ANC. MacSwiney's biographer, Dave Hannigan, writes about a young Ho Chi Minh, who, working in London when the death was announced, burst into tears, saying 'a country with citizens like that will never surrender...’
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