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Mayor of Cork Thomas MacSwinney [sic] in His Office, 1920. '...a fervent Sinn-Feiner. So fervent in fact, that when jailed in Brixton Prison, he starved himself to death in many long and terrible days'. Irish playwright, author and politician Terence MacSwiney was elected as Sinn Féin Lord Mayor of Cork during the Irish War of Independence in 1920. From "Time To Remember - The Plunge Into Peace", 1920 (Reel 4); events of 1920 - weddings, women's rights, industrial unrest and problems in Ireland