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2020
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Terence MacSwiney, Lord Mayor of Cork, began his hunger strike on his arrest on August 12th 1920. Six days later, he was court martialled, sentenced for sedition and transferred from Cork to Brixton jail. The story drew global and multi-lingual newspaper coverage, and is one of the earliest examples of an extended, medically-documented hunger strike. It raised political tensions, and also posed medical, ecumenical and medico-legal quandaries.
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Images have been removed from UL's Repository copy of this article due to copyright reasons. The original article appeared in Brainstorm RTE 27th October, 2020.
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