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title="Cork (city)">Cork</a>, Ireland</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Occupation</th><td class="infobox-data role"><a href="/wiki/Lord_Mayor_of_Cork" title="Lord Mayor of Cork">Lord Mayor of Cork</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Known for</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Sinn_F%C3%A9in" title="Sinn Féin">Sinn Féin</a> Lord Mayor of Cork (assassinated)</td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Tomás Mac Curtain</b> (20 March 1884 – 20 March 1920) was an Irish <a href="/wiki/Sinn_F%C3%A9in" title="Sinn Féin">Sinn Féin</a> politician who served as the <a href="/wiki/Lord_Mayor_of_Cork" title="Lord Mayor of Cork">Lord Mayor of Cork</a> until he was assassinated by the <a href="/wiki/Royal_Irish_Constabulary" title="Royal Irish Constabulary">Royal Irish Constabulary</a>. He was elected in January 1920. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Background">Background</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Tom%C3%A1s_Mac_Curtain&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Background"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Tomás Mac Curtain was born at Ballyknockane, <a href="/wiki/Mourne_Abbey" title="Mourne Abbey">Mourne Abbey</a>, <a href="/wiki/County_Cork" title="County Cork">County Cork</a>, on 20 March 1884, the son of Patrick Curtin, a farmer, and Julia Sheehan.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He attended Burnfort National School. In 1897 the family moved to <a href="/wiki/Cork_(city)" title="Cork (city)">Cork City</a>, where he attended the <a href="/wiki/The_North_Monastery" class="mw-redirect" title="The North Monastery">North Monastery School</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Mac Curtain, as he would later be known, was active in a number of cultural and political movements beginning around the turn of the 20th century. He joined the <a href="/wiki/Blackpool,_County_Cork" class="mw-redirect" title="Blackpool, County Cork">Blackpool, Cork</a> branch of <a href="/wiki/Conradh_na_Gaeilge" title="Conradh na Gaeilge">Conradh na Gaeilge</a> (the Gaelic League), becoming its secretary in 1902.<sup id="cite_ref-foster_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-foster-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He had interests in music, poetry, history, archaeology and Irish history.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (November 2017)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> He worked as a clerk in his early career and taught Irish in his free time. In 1911 he joined <a href="/wiki/Fianna_%C3%89ireann" title="Fianna Éireann">Fianna Éireann</a>, and was a member of the <a href="/wiki/Irish_Volunteers" title="Irish Volunteers">Irish Volunteers</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-foster_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-foster-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>He met Elizabeth Walsh (Eibhlís Breathnach) at a Gaelic League meeting and they married on 28 June 1908.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> They had six children, five of whom survived into adulthood. The family lived over number 40 Thomas Davis Street, where Mac Curtain ran a small clothing and rainwear factory.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (October 2016)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Easter_Rising_and_military_career">Easter Rising and military career</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Tom%C3%A1s_Mac_Curtain&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Easter Rising and military career"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In April 1916, at the outset of the <a href="/wiki/Easter_Rising" title="Easter Rising">Easter Rising</a>, Mac Curtain commanded a force of up to 1,000 men of the Irish Volunteers who assembled at various locations around County Cork. From the volunteer headquarters at Sheares Street in the city, Mac Curtain and his officers awaited orders from the volunteer leadership in Dublin. Conflicting instructions and confusion prevailed and, as a result, the Cork volunteers never entered the fray. A tense stand-off developed when British forces surrounded the volunteer hall and it continued for a week until an agreement was negotiated with Captain <a href="/w/index.php?title=Wallace_Dickie&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Wallace Dickie (page does not exist)">F. W. Dickie</a>, aide-de-camp to Brigadier General <a href="/wiki/William_Stafford_(British_soldier)" class="mw-redirect" title="William Stafford (British soldier)">W. F. H. Stafford</a>, the General Officer Commanding (GOC) in Cork,<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> led to the surrender of the volunteers' arms to the then Lord Mayor of Cork, <a href="/w/index.php?title=Thomas_C._Butterfield&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Thomas C. Butterfield (page does not exist)">Thomas C. Butterfield</a>, on the understanding that they would be returned at a later date. This did not happen, however, and Mac Curtain was jailed in Wakefield, in the former <a href="/wiki/Frongoch" title="Frongoch">Frongoch</a> Prisoner of War camp in <a href="/wiki/Wales" title="Wales">Wales</a> and in Reading.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>After the general amnesty of participants in the Rising 18 months later, Mac Curtain returned to active duty a local commandant of what was now the <a href="/wiki/Irish_Republican_Army" title="Irish Republican Army">Irish Republican Army</a> in County Cork.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In early 1919 GHQ carried out a radical restructuring by creating three brigades with set boundaries. Frank Hynes' battalion was an example of a whole unit being dissolved to be divided into smaller ranks, as two staffs were elected.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> During the Conscription Crisis in the autumn of 1918, Mac Curtain actively encouraged the hiring of the women of Cumann na mBan to cater for Volunteers.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He was personally involved with <a href="/wiki/The_Squad_(Irish_Republican_Army_unit)" title="The Squad (Irish Republican Army unit)">The Squad</a> that, with a Cork battalion, attempted to assassinate Lord French, whose car was missed as the convoy passed through the ambush positions.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (March 2020)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> He remained brigadier of No. 1 Cork when he became Lord Mayor of Cork. He was elected in the January 1920 council elections as the Sinn Féin councillor for NW Ward No. 3 of Cork and was chosen by his fellow councillors to be lord mayor. He began a process of political reform within the city.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Thomas_mac_curtain.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/88/Thomas_mac_curtain.jpg/170px-Thomas_mac_curtain.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="336" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/88/Thomas_mac_curtain.jpg/255px-Thomas_mac_curtain.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/88/Thomas_mac_curtain.jpg/340px-Thomas_mac_curtain.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1074" data-file-height="2124" /></a><figcaption>A memorial outside <a href="/wiki/Cork_City_Hall" class="mw-redirect" title="Cork City Hall">Cork City Hall</a> which reads 'Tomás Mac Curtain 1884-1920 Ardmhéara Chorcaí 30 Eanáir- 20 Márta 1920'</figcaption></figure> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Assassination">Assassination</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Tom%C3%A1s_Mac_Curtain&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Assassination"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>On 20 March 1920, his 36th birthday, Mac Curtain was shot dead,<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> in front of his wife and son, by a group of men with blackened faces, who were found, by the official <a href="/wiki/Inquest" title="Inquest">inquest</a> into the event, to be members of the <a href="/wiki/Royal_Irish_Constabulary" title="Royal Irish Constabulary">Royal Irish Constabulary</a> (RIC).<sup id="cite_ref-tpc_13-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-tpc-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In the wake of the killing, Mac Curtain's house in Blackpool was ransacked.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (July 2021)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>The killing caused widespread public outrage.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The coroner's inquest passed a verdict of wilful murder against British Prime Minister <a href="/wiki/David_Lloyd_George" title="David Lloyd George">Lloyd George</a> and against certain members of the RIC.<sup id="cite_ref-tpc_13-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-tpc-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Michael_Collins_(Irish_leader)" title="Michael Collins (Irish leader)">Michael Collins</a> later ordered his <a href="/wiki/The_Squad_(IRA_unit)" class="mw-redirect" title="The Squad (IRA unit)">squad of assassins</a> to uncover and assassinate the police officers involved in the attack. On 22 August 1920, RIC District Inspector Oswald Swanzy, who had ordered the attack, was fatally shot with Mac Curtain's own revolver, while leaving a Protestant church in <a href="/wiki/Lisburn" title="Lisburn">Lisburn</a>, <a href="/wiki/County_Antrim" title="County Antrim">County Antrim</a>, sparking what was described by <a href="/wiki/Tim_Pat_Coogan" title="Tim Pat Coogan">Tim Pat Coogan</a> as a "<a href="/wiki/Pogrom" title="Pogrom">pogrom</a>" against the Catholic residents of the town (see <a href="/wiki/The_Troubles_in_Northern_Ireland_(1920%E2%80%931922)" class="mw-redirect" title="The Troubles in Northern Ireland (1920–1922)">The Troubles in Northern Ireland (1920–1922)</a>).<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Mac Curtain is buried in <a href="/wiki/St._Finbarr%27s_Cemetery" title="St. Finbarr's Cemetery">St. Finbarr's Cemetery</a>, Cork.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (August 2021)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>His successor to the position of Lord Mayor, <a href="/wiki/Terence_MacSwiney" title="Terence MacSwiney">Terence MacSwiney</a>, died while on <a href="/wiki/Hunger_strike" title="Hunger strike">hunger strike</a> in <a href="/wiki/Brixton_(HM_Prison)" class="mw-redirect" title="Brixton (HM Prison)">Brixton prison</a>, London.<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>MacCurtain Street in the centre of Cork City is named after him.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Tomás_Óg_Mac_Curtain"><span id="Tom.C3.A1s_.C3.93g_Mac_Curtain"></span>Tomás Óg Mac Curtain</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Tom%C3%A1s_Mac_Curtain&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Tomás Óg Mac Curtain"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Mac Curtain's son, Tomás Óg (junior) (1915–1994), later became a leading republican and member of the IRA Executive, the main purpose of which was to elect the <a href="/wiki/List_of_IRA_Chiefs_of_Staff" class="mw-redirect" title="List of IRA Chiefs of Staff">Chief of Staff of the IRA</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1935, while armed, he was arrested by an unarmed <a href="/wiki/Garda_S%C3%ADoch%C3%A1na" title="Garda Síochána">Garda Síochána</a> Patrick Malone, who received the Silver Scott Medal for bravery.<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1940, Tomás Óg was sentenced to death for shooting <a href="/wiki/Garda_S%C3%ADoch%C3%A1na" title="Garda Síochána">Garda Síochána</a> Detective <a href="/wiki/John_Roche_(detective)" title="John Roche (detective)">John Roche</a>, who subsequently died. However, he was granted clemency and released after seven years. 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O'Connor</div> </td> <td style="width: 40%; text-align: center;" rowspan="1"><b> <a href="/wiki/Lord_Mayor_of_Cork" title="Lord Mayor of Cork">Lord Mayor of Cork</a> </b><br />1920 </td> <td style="width: 30%; text-align: center;" rowspan="1">Succeeded by<div style="font-weight: bold"><a href="/wiki/Terence_MacSwiney" title="Terence MacSwiney">Terence MacSwiney</a></div> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="navbox-styles"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1129693374">.mw-parser-output .hlist dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist ul{margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .hlist dd,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt,.mw-parser-output .hlist li{margin:0;display:inline}.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline,.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline ul,.mw-parser-output .hlist dl dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist dl ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist dl ul,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol 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