Reference code
IE CA IR-1/5/2/16
Title
Photograph of the Wedding of Terence MacSwiney and Muriel Murphy
Date(s)
- June 1917 (Creation)
Level of description
Item
Extent and medium
Black and white print; 12.5 cm x 8.6 cm
Name of creator
(13 February 1883-17 October 1935)
Repository
Archival history
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Scope and content
A photographic print of the wedding of Terence MacSwiney and Muriel Murphy in June 1917. In February 1917 MacSwiney was deported from Ireland and interned in Shrewsbury and Bromyard internment camps until his release in June 1917. It was during his exile in Bromyard that he married Muriel Murphy, a member of a wealthy brewing family in Cork. Fr. Augustine Hayden OFM Cap. an Irish Capuchin friar (standing, third from the right), was the celebrant at the wedding.