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Huge Crowds Watching the Funeral Procession of Terence MacSwiney. His Coffin Is Draped in the Irish Tricolour, 1920. 'When McSwiney's body returned to his native Cork, there were many troops and armoured cars on hand in case there should be trouble. But there was no trouble, only a great and terrible sadness. In less than a year, feeling both in Ireland and Britain was to result in the Irish Free State'. Terence MacSwiney was Sinn Féin Lord Mayor of Cork during the Irish War of Independence. He was arrested by the British Government on charges of sedition and imprisoned in Brixton Prison. He died there in October 1920 after 74 days on hunger strike. From "Time To Remember - The Plunge Into Peace", 1920 (Reel 4); events of 1920 - weddings, women's rights, industrial unrest and problems in Ireland