"Terence MacSwiney" by Fr Peter Cullen 25 -10- 2020

Probably no man outside of Michael Collins was as responsible for getting England to agree to peace talks in 1921 as Terence MacSwiney, and he accomplished this without an act of violence. MacSwiney, like Ghandi some twenty years later, helped bring British rule in his country to an end by passive resistance; he refused to submit to British law, and by that simple act he brought the harsh glare of a worldwide spotlight to the injustice of Great Britain's colonial regime in Ireland.