Terence McSweeney became mayor of Cork during the Irish war of independence. He died in Brixton prison, his wife Muriel, formerly Murphy did not believe it was suicide. After his death the u.k. authorities held on to his body. Muriel met with the u.k. foreign secretary regarding his death and remains. Two republican volunteers were mentioned, Richard Coleman and Pierce McCann who are thought to have died of disease whilst in prison.
The singer of opera and other songs Margaret Burke Sheridan would have been a contemporary of Terence McSweeney. In one of her albums she mentions the death of a compatriot. Would it have been Terence McSweeney?