16 - Photograph of the Wedding of Terence MacSwiney and Muriel Murphy

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Photograph of the Wedding of Terence MacSwiney and Muriel Murphy

Black and white print; 12.5 cm x 8.6 cm

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.

ISAD(G) 2nd edition