Terence MacSwiney was an Irish philosopher, writer and revolutionary from County Cork. He was elected as both a member of Dail Eireann (the Irish Parliament) and as Lord Mayor Cork City, when he was arrested and imprisoned by British political police forces. In protest of their imprisonment he and other Irish political prisoners went on Hunger Strike and on October 24, 1920, on the 74th day of his fast, he was killed when his gaolers tried to force feed him.