Happy St. Patrick’s Day to all our members, patrons and friends. Please note that the museum will be closed for the day.
We have only made a beginning, the words of Mary O’Sullivan co-founder of The Terence MacSwiney Memorial Museum on the opening day in 1965. We will be staging an exhibition in Independence Museum Kilmurry in September 2025 to celebrate the 60th birthday of the museum and the changes in Kilmurry since then. If you or […]
Tomás McCurtain and Terence McSwiney – The County Cork Connection A 360o short documentary undertaken by Wombat Media, working with and on behalf of Cork County Council to commemorate the County Cork connections of Terence McSwiney and Tomás Mac Curtáin. This production forms part of Cork County Council’s Decade of Centenaries Commemorative Programme, developed by […]
After 74 days since he began his hunger strike on the day of his arrest in Cork City Hall Lord Mayor Terence MacSwiney died on hunger strike in Brixton Prison, London on the 25th October 1920.
