Dark Slender Boy: Terence McSweeny's death must have been in 1920: my father Terry Burke was born on Christmas Day 1920, and was named after him. There was a great deal of sympathy and solidarity for the Irish independence movement among British trades unionists at the time. There's a family story that eldest sons had been named John and (I think) Thomas in alternate generations for hundreds of years, and my grandfather (a John) was the first to break the sequence.