James Farley - The Irish American force behind President Franklin D. Roosevelt
James Farley was a giant of US politics and commerce, not a bad legacy for a descendant of immigrants from Ballinaskerry, County Meath.
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The death of Terence MacSwiney, Lord Mayor of Cork
Terence MacSwiney, Lord Mayor of Cork died in Brixton jail on the 25th of October 1920 after 74 days on hunger strike in protest at the treatment of republican prisoners in British jails.
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