MURPHY FOLLOWS LORD MAYOR TO GRAVE / IRELAND AND ENGLAND ARE STIRRED FOLLOWING DEATH OF IRISH LEADER; MURPHY THIRD OF STRIKERS DEAD

The Butte Miner, Butte, 1920-10-26, p.1

Dateline: Cork, Oct. 25. / London, Oct. 25.

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Summary

Banner front-page wire dispatch on the deaths of two Cork hunger strikers on 25 October 1920: Terence MacSwiney (Lord Mayor of Cork, died early in Brixton prison on day 74 of his hunger strike) and Joseph Murphy (Irish Volunteer, 25, unmarried, died at 8:35 p.m. in Cork jail). MacSwiney's strike is described as galvanic for the republican movement; Murphy is the third striker dead. This is the high-water-mark Anglo-Irish-war coverage of 1920 — the Butte Miner ran it as the lead, above the fold, on a five-column-wide banner head. Surname "Murphy" in a Cork hunger-strike death made every Butte Murphy household relevant — including the user's. Whether Joseph Murphy of Cork (1920 hunger striker, b. ~1895) had any blood tie to the user's Beara Murphys is an open question, but even without a tie the front-page banner is the kind of news that would have rippled through person_james_j_murphy_centerville_ aoh's Irish-American organisational world. The bond-drive cluster of clippings (Jan-Mar 1920) that immediately precedes this date in the archive is the Butte response to exactly this campaign.

Also mentioned

  • Joseph Murphy · dying_hunger_striker

    Cork jail, died 25 Oct 1920 at 8:35pm. Age 25, unmarried. Member of the Irish Volunteers. Athlete. Third striker dead in the 1920 Cork jail strike.

  • Terence MacSwiney · dying_hunger_striker

    Lord Mayor of Cork. Died in Brixton prison early 25 Oct 1920 on day 74 of his hunger strike. Imprisoned on charge of possessing seditious documents.

  • F. K. Shong · bomb_target_seattle

    Milwaukee Railroad official whose Seattle home was wrecked by a bomb attributed to Reds; named in the second front-page lead. Not Irish-context relevant.

  • Lloyd George · criticised_premier

    Former British Premier; criticised at the 10,000-strong Gotham mass meeting on Irish cause covered in the page's secondary lead.

  • Senator Walsh · campaigning

    Montana Senator Thomas J. Walsh opening campaign at Miles City — separate front-page item.

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  • evidence_supporting
  • heavy

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news_item, wire_item

Transcription
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# MURPHY FOLLOWS LORD MAYOR TO GRAVE ## IRELAND AND ENGLAND ARE STIRRED FOLLOWING DEATH OF IRISH LEADER; MURPHY THIRD OF STRIKERS DEAD *The Butte Miner, Tuesday morning, October 26, 1920, p. 1 (Home Edition, banner lead, five columns). Associated Press.* **Cork, Oct. 25.** — Joseph Murphy, one of the hunger strikers in Cork jail, died tonight at 8:35 p.m. He was 25 years old and unmarried, the dispatch says. Murphy was a member of the Irish volunteers and was well known as an athlete. **London, Oct. 25.** — Terence MacSwiney, lord mayor of Cork, most prominent of the Irish hunger strikers and said to have been the brains of the republican army, died early today in Brixton prison. The end was not unexpected, for the mayor had been unconscious several days. He was enduring the seventy-fourth day of his hunger strike as a protest against his arrest and two years' imprisonment on several charges, including one of possessing seditious documents. *[Article continues across the page — text below this point is not in the captured clip.]* --- *Page-1 banner secondary head:* **BOMB EXPLOSION WRECKS HOME OF SEATTLE RAILROAD OFFICIAL** *Other page-1 items visible in the clip but not transcribed: "FEDERAL AGENTS FOLLOW TRAIL OF REDS THOUGHT TO HAVE PLANTED BOMB; INTENDED VICTIMS SAFE" (Seattle, F. K. Shong bomb); "DEMONSTRATION ON IRISH CAUSE HELD IN GOTHAM" (Ten Thousand New Yorkers Attend Mass Meeting; Former Premier Lloyd George and Government Criticized); "WALSH CLEAN CUT ON PARTY ISSUES" (Montana Senator Opens Campaign at Miles City; National Issues and League of Nations; State Campaign); "GREEK KING IS DEAD; FORMER RULER MAY BE SELECTED MONARCH"; "WEST VA. GIVES GOVERNOR COX A ROUSING WELCOME"; "'DAVS' VICTORIOUS IN CANADIAN STATE"; "BRITISH MINERS UNABLE TO COME TO DECISION ON WAGE PROPOSALS"; "EASTERN COAL OPERATORS MEET ON PRICE ISSUE"; "CHAMPION VAG LEFT $80,000 IN WILL TO BETTER JAIL RECORD"; "RECOGNITION OF MEXICO WITHHELD PENDING PASSING OF NEW STATUTES"; "ANTI-SPECULATION LAW IS PROPOSED"; "DIXON TO ADDRESS TWO MEETINGS IN CITY."*

Source ID: 1920-10-26_butte-miner_macswiney-murphy-cork-hunger-strikers-die

On page: 1920-10-26_butte-miner_p01

Clipped by lukedmurphy on 2022-12-16.