€1,200
Lord Mayor of Cork
Mac Swiney (Terence) Interesting TLS as Lord Mayor of Cork, dated 2 June 1920, on headed official notepaper with black border, to the superintendent, Great Southern & Western Railway, supporting a proposal from Messrs Henry Ford of Cork for sleeping carriages to be attached to the mail train between Cork and Kingstown (Dun Laoghaire). With a good signature in Irish, fold marks, slightly frayed, but without loss. As a m/ss, w.a.f.
* Terence Mc Swiney became Lord Mayor of Cork in March 1920, following the assassination of the previous Mayor, Tomas Mac Curtain, by British Troops - hence the black border. He was himself arrested a few months later and commenced his fatal hunger strike, the result of which claimed his life on 25th October, 1920. (1)
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