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It suffered a severe blow in 1349 when almost half the townspeople died of plague when the Black Death arrived in the town. In 1491, Cork played a part in the English Wars of the Roses when Perkin Warbeck, a pretender to the English throne, landed in the city and tried to recruit support for a plot to overthrow Henry VII of England.
- Cork Airport
Map showing Cork Airport in relation to the rest of Cork...
- Burning of Cork
The burning of Cork (Irish: Dó Chorcaí) by British forces...
- Cork City F.C.
Cork City Football Club (Irish: Cumann Peile Chathair...
- Cork Airport
- An Ugly, Intimate War
- The Dillon’s Cross Ambush
- The Burning of Cork
- Explaining The Reprisal
The burning of Cork was a reprisal for an IRA ambush on the same night at Dillon’s Cross, on the north side of the city. More broadly, it was part of an ugly, intimate war in the tight, steep streets of the city on river Lee. Since 1919, when the confrontation between the forces of the Crownand of the unilaterally declared Irish Republic had begun,...
According to Sean Healy, ‘A Company’ of the Cork city IRA had noticed that the Auxiliaries at Victoria Barracks left there every evening at 8 pm by the same route through Dillon’s Cross on their way into the city centre. Six men under an IRA battalion officer Sean O’Donoghue lay in wait for the Auxiliaries at Dillon’s Cross, armed with handguns and...
The houses around the ambush site at Dillon’s Cross were the first to be destroyed by the vengeful Auxiliaries, consisting of about 50 men of K Company, who then headed towards the commercial heart of the city. The regular RIC and British Army appear not to have participated in the burnings, but do not appear to have tried to stop the Auxiliaries e...
That Crown forces would seek revenge after guerrilla attacks killed one of their number is perhaps unsurprising. What is surprising however is the utterly indiscriminate nature of the Auxiliaries’ assault on Cork’s main shopping street. Big business owners, after all, were generally not supporters of radical nationalism, still less of the IRA. Sure...
Dec 10, 2020 · Twelve Auxiliaries were injured in the ambush and one, Cadet Spencer Chapman, later died of his wounds. A birds-eye view of the devastated city after the burning of Cork. Image courtesy of...
Dec 11, 2020 · One hundred years ago an ambush on an Auxiliary patrol at Dillon's Cross in Cork city on the night of 11 December 1920 preceded the destruction of the commercial heart of the city by British...
Cork City Football Club (Irish: Cumann Peile Chathair Chorcaí) is an Irish association football club based in Cork. The club was founded and elected to the League of Ireland in 1984. It was one of the first clubs in Ireland (and the first in Cork) to field a team of professional footballers.
Oct 1, 2021 · While there was no loss of life as a result of the fires, some £2.5m worth of damage was caused and over 2,000 people lost their jobs. This first of three interactive maps provides a visual overview of the buildings destroyed, damaged and looted on 11-12 December 1920.
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Terence James MacSwiney ( / məkˈswiːni /; Irish: Toirdhealbhach Mac Suibhne; 28 March 1879 – 25 October 1920) [1] was an Irish playwright, author and politician. He was elected as Sinn Féin Lord Mayor of Cork during the Irish War of Independence in 1920. [2]
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