#terence macswiney

[stairnaheireann]

#OTD in 1886 – Home Rule Bill introduced in English Parliament by William Gladstone.

The Acts of Union 1800, united the Kingdom of Great Britain and the Kingdom of Ireland (previously in personal union) to create the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. At various intervals during this time, attempts were made to destabilise Anglo-Irish relations. Rebellions were launched in 1803, 1848, 1867, and 1916 to try to end British rule over Ireland. Daniel O’Connell in the…

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#Anglo-Irish Treaty #Arthur Griffith #British Commonwealth #Charles Stewart Parnell #Edward Carson #England #History #History of Ireland #Home Rule #Ireland #Irish History #Isaac Butt #Prime Minister William Gladstone #Terence MacSwiney #Ulster

[newyorkthegoldenage]

Three Irishwomen, dressed in black, carry palms of victory and placards that read, "Terence MacSwiney is dead—greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends," "Terence MacSwiney is dead," and "In life or death the victory is ours—MacSwiney" during a parade downtown, ca. 1920. MacSwiney was an Irish playwright, author, and Sinn Fein Lord Mayor of Cork who died in October 1920 after 74 days on hunger strike, having been imprisoned at Brixton Prison by the British Government on charges of sedition.

Photo: Keystone View Company/Keystone/Hulton Archive/Getty Images

#New York #NYC #vintage New York #1920s #Sinn Fein #Terence MacSwiney #Irish republicanism #Irish republic #demonstration #parade #political causes #placards

[hyperions-fate]

Like Terence MacSwiney before him, Khader Adnan gave his body and his life for the cause of human freedom. His sacrifice will not be in vain.

#Palestine

[werewolfetone]

adding terence macswiney to the list of Hot Cork Revolutionaries (with a side of tragedy) my man, my boy, light of my life

Added to the list along with Collins & Russell 👍

#asks #anon #this doesn't deserve an irish history tag #jory.txt

[thesquireinvictus]

"It is not those that inflict the most, but those that endure the most, that shall win."

— Terence MacSwiney, Irish playwright, author, and politician, who assumed office as Lord Mayor of Cork during the Irish War of Independence in 1920, and was arrested by British forces on charges of sedition, then incarcerated in Brixton Prison, where he died after 74 days on hunger strike, bringing the Irish cause to the attention of the world.

#lit #history

[antonia-gergely]

Crawford Art Gallery - Dominic Thorpe's Dark Dark Mouth - 25/01/2024

Notes I took while I was there:

"All Eyes on Us, curated by Matt Ryan and Michael Waldron, sets a wonderfully meta scene for Thorpe's performance. Housed within the Gibson galleries, these glaring gazes watch me watch the artist. They add to the sense of urgent, inactionable distress conveyed by Thorpe's exhibited body of work. Sitting at a large table topped by a sheet of paper is Thorpe. There is a large metal pipe in the centre of the room"

Afterwards Thorpe informed me that it was an old pole he had in his garden, potentially from the ESB. he was very nonchalant about it - just a simple sculptural element he liked

"One end has a white square of muslin draped over it, the other end gently grazes the performer's head occasionally. He moves about in his trance, rocking and adjusting his pen-wielding hand on the page at a pace so slow you would miss it if you only glanced at him. The other hand in his mouth conveys an exaggerated position of anxiety. Nail-biting, tooth-grinding, thumb-sucking. A swell of breath sends his hand dancing a few millimetres away from its former resting place."

"This couldn't be a better setting. Kevin Mooney's Storyteller faces Thorpe. There lies a dialogue about Irish history. The image of the man of the house, telling victorious stories, invincible, smoking a pipe, across from the performer, a man in silent agony. How far does this hidden perpetrator's trauma recede into history? How do we mitigate its continuation?

"John Lavery's impressionist muscle memory emerges in the portrait of Mrs Terence MacSwiney behind Thorpe. She watches in slight amusement at how engrossed I am with this performance. Another facet of Irish history.

"Four bricks of limestone - the buildings of Ireland - hold down each corner of the large sheet on which the artist works. He uses such a grand surface and moves so little. Is he stuck? Overwhelmed?

"Is he drawing what it feels like inside his mouth? Is he meditating? Are we supposed to be seeing this? Am I supposed to be standing in front of him scribbling down ideas of him as he undertakes this journey of undoing or doing or awakening or meditating? I want to ask him. I want to ask him but I can't. I am so close but so indescribably far from the working mind of this artist."

Then he came out of his meditative drawing trance, before the end of the performance. There was repetitive talking outside. It was such a jarring feeling, though I knew it was unintentional, suddenly being watched by the work I was scrutinising. It was just like the paintings around me watching me, but more real. Thorpe apologised before resuming the performance, but honestly it was the most engaging and evocative part of the performance.

It was one of those moments where you question the boundaries between art and life. Between being the observer or the observed.

After the performance, and a quick chat with the very amicable artist, I went next door to the gallery containing some drawings of his. Very simply installed, pieces of tracing paper covered each drawing, pressing against, and revealing, each drawing when a fan blew on them.

The rustling of the paper and whirring of the fans in complete silence was akin to some abandoned thought, left to flutter and fade by the mind. I think it worked so well because it was an understated look at the psychological effects of war on those involved as perpetrators and fighters. It didn't preach or degrade, and it left a lot of room for personal interpretation of the installation's elements.

#art research #performance art #art gallery #crawford

[brookstonalmanac]

Events 10.25 (after 1920)

1920 – After 74 days on hunger strike in Brixton Prison, England, the Sinn Féin Lord Mayor of Cork, Terence MacSwiney dies. 1924 – The Zinoviev letter, which Zinoviev himself denied writing, is published in the Daily Mail; the Labour party would later blame this letter for the Conservatives' landslide election win four days later. 1927 – The Italian luxury liner SS Principessa Mafalda sinks off the coast of Brazil, killing 314. 1932 – George Lansbury became the leader of the opposition British Labour Party. 1940 – Benjamin O. Davis Sr. is named the first African American general in the United States Army. 1944 – World War II: Heinrich Himmler orders a crackdown on the Edelweiss Pirates, a loosely organized youth culture in Nazi Germany that had assisted army deserters and others to hide from the Third Reich. 1944 – World War II: The USS Tang under Richard O'Kane (the top American submarine ace of the war) is sunk by the ship's own malfunctioning torpedo. 1944 – World War II: The final attempt of the Imperial Japanese Navy to win the war climaxes at the Battle of Leyte Gulf. 1945 – Fifty years of Japanese administration of Taiwan formally ends when the Republic of China assumes control. 1949 – The Battle of Guningtou in the Taiwan Strait begins. 1962 – Cuban Missile Crisis: Adlai Stevenson shows the United Nations Security Council reconnaissance photographs of Soviet ballistic missiles in Cuba. 1968 – A Fairchild F-27 crashes into Moose Mountain while on approach to Lebanon Municipal Airport in Lebanon, New Hampshire, killing 32 people. 1971 – The People's Republic of China replaces the Republic of China at the United Nations. 1973 – Egypt and Israel accept United Nations Security Council Resolution 339. 1980 – Proceedings on the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction conclude. 1983 – The United States and its Caribbean allies invade Grenada, six days after Prime Minister Maurice Bishop and several of his supporters are executed in a coup d'état. 1990 – The Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic declares its sovereignty from the Soviet Union. 1995 – A commuter train slams into a school bus in Fox River Grove, Illinois, killing seven students. 1997 – After a civil war, Denis Sassou Nguesso proclaims himself President of the Republic of the Congo. 1999 – A Learjet 35 crashes in Mina near Aberdeen, South Dakota, killing all six people on board, including PGA golfer Payne Stewart and golf course designer Bruce Borland. 2001 – Microsoft releases Windows XP, which becomes one of Microsoft's most successful operating systems. 2009 – The October 2009 Baghdad bombings kill 155 and wound at least 721. 2010 – Mount Merapi in Indonesia begins a month-long series of violent eruptions that kill 353 people and cause the evacuation of another 350,000 people. 2010 – A magnitude 7.8 earthquake strikes off Indonesia's Mentawai Islands, triggering a tsunami that kills at least 400 people.

#Events

[maisiebraemgrad505]

Information Im using in my Formative

Question: How do the murals in Dublin & Belfast to the present day reflect on events that occurred in the troubles from 1970s-1985?

Key words: The troubles, Propaganda, Ideological, Mural symbolism, Oppression

quotes 

1; “The dramatic visibility and physical presence of murals made them a natural medium for organizations attempting to transmit their ideological message to as wide an audience as possible”

Reference:

Author: Gregory Goalwin Name of article or book: The Art Of War: Instability, Insecurity, Ideological Imagery in Northern Ireland’s Political Murals, 1979-1998 Page number(s): 194 Publisher:Springer Science + Business Media New York 2013

2; “Murals have figured as a prominent feature of the visual environment of Northern Ireland from the origins of Northern Ireland in 1922, on through ‘the Troubles’, to the present period of the peace process. In so doing these murals have evolved into some of the best-known examples of political art in the world”

Reference:

Author: Andrew Hill & Andrew White Name of article or book: Painting Peace? Murals and the Northern Ireland Peace Process Chapter Name (if any): Irish Political studies Vol. 27 No. 1 Page number(s): 71 Publisher: Taylor & Francis

References:

Hill, A., & White, A. (2012). Painting peace? Murals and the Northern Ireland peace process. Irish Political Studies, 27(1), 71- 88. https://doi.org/10.1080/07907184.2012.6361 84

Goalwin, G. (2013). The art of war: Instability, insecurity, and ideological imagery in Northern Ireland’s political murals, 1979– 1998. International Journal of Politics, Culture, and Society, 26(3), 189-

215. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10767-013-9142-y

Crowley, Tony. "The Art of Memory: The Murals of Northern Ireland and the Management of History." Field Day Review 7 (2011): 22-49. Print. https://scholarship.claremont.edu/cgi/viewconten t.cgi?article=1027&context=scripps_fac_pub

Scull, M. M. (2015). The Catholic Church and the hunger strikes of Terence MacSwiney and Bobby sands. Irish Political Studies, 31(2), 282- 299. https://doi.org/10.1080/07907184.2015.108 4292

Skinner, J. (2015). Walking the falls: Dark tourism and the significance of movement on the political tour of west Belfast. Tourist Studies, 16(1), 23- 39. https://doi.org/10.1177/1468797615588427

Key ideas for Summary

Early murals from both Loyalists and Republicans were used to get their ideological beliefs across to the wider community. 

- symbols and events that furthered their political views

 -Murals reflect on the history of the troubles especially the oppression many people faced during this time. 

 -Current day murals are being reimaged in order to move away from visual imagery that causes for disagreement and hostility between different communities in Ireland. 

-Policies such as “the shared future” are working for unified visual imagery in the effort to steer away from demonstrations of racism as well as sectarianism.  -Murals of Dublin and Belfast have been largely impacted by the troubles and have been used as an expressive outlet. 

-Visualise past historical events and have been used as a form of political propaganda. 

- Over the years murals have begun to shine a more positive light on the troubles with neutral imagery. 

-Belfast and Dublin's murals are now seen as a large tourist attraction that shed some light on Irish traditions and culture. 

[grundoonmgnx]

Hugh C. Charde (Irish, 1858–1946),  Portrait of Terence MacSwiney, Lord Mayor of Cork, 1920 Oil on canvas, 77 x 64cm

#hugh charde #hugh c. charde #terence macswiney

[stairnaheireann]

#OTD in 1872 – Birth of Irish patriot, Mary MacSwiney (Maire Nic Shuibhne), in London.

Mary MacSwiney (Máire Nic Suibhne) was born in London to an Irish father and English mother. The family returned to Cork when she was six and she was educated at St. Angela’s Ursuline convent school. She obtained a teaching diploma at Cambridge University and taught at schools in England before returning to Cork on the death of her mother in 1904 to care for younger members of the family. She…

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#1916 Easter Rising #Co. Cork #Cumann na mBan #Dáil Eireann #Gaelic League #Inghinidhe na hEireann #Ireland #Irish Civil War #Irish War of Independence #Mary MacSwiney #Sinn Fein #St. Enda&039;s #Terence MacSwiney

[newyorkthegoldenage]

Eamon de Valera, a leader of the Irish independence movement, delivered an address to a crowd estimated at 40,000 at the Polo Grounds late in 1920. The speech was a memorial in honor of Terence MacSwiney, the Lord Mayor of Cork, who had died in a British prison after a 74-day hunger strike in October.

Photo: NY Times

#New York #NYC #vintage New York #1920s #Eamon de Valera #Ireland #Irish independence #Polo Grounds #Terence MacSwiney #memorial

[hyperions-fate]

Terence MacSwiney, Irish writer and Sinn Féin Lord Mayor of Cork. Following his election as Lord Mayor, MacSwiney was arrested and convicted of sedition by a British military court. He died in Brixton Prison on 25th October 1920 after 74 days on hunger strike.

"It is not they who can inflict the most, but they who can suffer the most, who will conquer."

#Terence MacSwiney #Irish Republicanism #Anti-imperalism #Irish history

[aforismidiunpazzo]

Accadde Oggi: 25 Ottobre 1920

Muore Terence MacSwiney, Sinn Féin Lord Mayor of Cork, dopo 74 giorni di sciopero della fame nella prigione di Brixton in Inghilterra.

Continua su Aforismi di un pazzo. 

#Accadde Oggi #25 Ottobre #1920 #Terence ;MacSwiney #Sinn Fein #Cork #Brixton #Inghilterra #Aforismi di un pazzo #Stefano Zorba

[brookstonalmanac]

Events 8.11 (After 1900)

1918 – World War I: The Battle of Amiens ends. 1919 – Germany's Weimar Constitution is signed into law. 1920 – The 1920 Cork hunger strike begins which eventually results in the deaths of three Irish Republicans including the Lord Mayor of Cork Terence MacSwiney. 1920 – The Latvian–Soviet Peace Treaty, which relinquished Russia's authority and pretenses to Latvia, is signed, ending the Latvian War of Independence. 1929 – Babe Ruth becomes the first baseball player to hit 500 home runs in his career with a home run at League Park in Cleveland, Ohio. 1934 – The first civilian prisoners arrive at the Federal prison on Alcatraz Island. 1942 – Actress Hedy Lamarr and composer George Antheil receive a patent for a Frequency-hopping spread spectrum communication system that later became the basis for modern technologies in wireless telephones, two-way radio communications, and Wi-Fi. 1945 – Poles in Kraków engage in a pogrom against Jews in the city, killing one and wounding five. 1952 – Hussein bin Talal is proclaimed King of Jordan. 1959 – Sheremetyevo International Airport, the second-largest airport in Russia, opens. 1960 – Chad declares independence from France. 1961 – The former Portuguese territories in India of Dadra and Nagar Haveli are merged to create the Union Territory Dadra and Nagar Haveli. 1962 – Vostok 3 launches from the Baikonur Cosmodrome and cosmonaut Andrian Nikolayev becomes the first person to float in microgravity. 1965 – Race riots (the Watts Riots) begin in the Watts area of Los Angeles, California. 1969 – The Apollo 11 astronauts are released from a three-week quarantine following their liftoff from the Moon. 1972 – Vietnam War: The last United States ground combat unit leaves South Vietnam. 1975 – East Timor: Governor Mário Lemos Pires of Portuguese Timor abandons the capital Dili, following a coup by the Timorese Democratic Union (UDT) and the outbreak of civil war between UDT and Fretilin. 1979 – Two Aeroflot Tupolev Tu-134s collide over the Ukrainian city of Dniprodzerzhynsk and crash, killing all 178 aboard both airliners. 1982 – A bomb explodes on Pan Am Flight 830, en route from Tokyo, Japan to Honolulu, Hawaii, killing one passenger and injuring 15 others. 1984 – "We begin bombing in five minutes": United States President Ronald Reagan, while running for re-election, jokes while preparing to make his weekly Saturday address on National Public Radio. 1988 – A meeting between Sayyed Imam Al-Sharif, Osama bin Laden, Abdullah Yusuf Azzam, and leaders of Egyptian Islamic Jihad in Afghanistan culminates in the formation of Al-Qaeda. 1992 – The Mall of America in Bloomington, Minnesota opens. At the time the largest shopping mall in the United States. 2000 – An air rage incident occurs on board Southwest Airlines Flight 1763 when 19-year-old Jonathan Burton attempts to storm the cockpit, but he is subdued by other passengers and dies from his injuries. 2003 – NATO takes over command of the peacekeeping force in Afghanistan, marking its first major operation outside Europe in its 54-year-history. 2003 – Jemaah Islamiyah leader Riduan Isamuddin, better known as Hambali, is arrested in Bangkok, Thailand. 2006 – The oil tanker MT Solar 1 sinks off the coast of Guimaras and Negros Islands in the Philippines, causing the country's worst oil spill. 2012 – At least 306 people are killed and 3,000 others injured in a pair of earthquakes near Tabriz, Iran. 2017 – At least 41 people are killed and another 179 injured after two passenger trains collide in Alexandria, Egypt.

#Events