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Website. Official website. Cork ( Irish: Corcaigh [ˈkɔɾˠkəɟ]; from corcach, meaning 'marsh') [6] is the second largest city in the Republic of Ireland, third largest on the island of Ireland, the county town of County Cork and largest city in the province of Munster. At the 2022 census, it had a population of 224,004.
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Map showing Cork Airport in relation to the rest of Cork...
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The burning of Cork (Irish: Dó Chorcaí) by British forces...
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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. With the progression of professionalism at the ...
- Origins
- Settler Outpost
- Wars of Religion
- Eighteenth-Century Cork
- Population Explosion, Famine and Emigration
- War of Independence
- Civil War
- Late Twentieth-Century Cork
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Cork began as a monastic settlement, founded by St Finbar in the sixth century. However the ancestor of the modern city was founded between 915 and 922, when Viking settlers established a trading community. The Viking leader Ottir Iarla is particularly associated with raiding and conquests in the province of Munster. The Cogad Gáedel re Gallaib con...
For much of the Middle Ages, Cork city was an outpost of Old English culture in the midst of a predominantly hostile Gaelic countryside and cut off from the English government in the Pale around Dublin. Neighbouring Gaelic and Hiberno-Norman lords extorted "Black Rent" from the citizens to keep them from attacking the city. The Cork municipal gover...
The character of Cork was changed by the Tudor conquest of Ireland (c. 1540–1603) which left the English authorities in control of all of Ireland for the first time, introduced thousands of English settlers in the Plantations of Ireland and tried to impose the Protestant Reformation on a predominantly Catholic country. Cork suffered from the warfar...
In the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries French Protestants (Huguenots) arrived in Cork fleeing from religious persecution at the hands of Louis XIV of France. Their influence can still be seen in the names of the Huguenot Quarter and French Church Street. Many new buildings were erected in Cork in the eighteenth century. Like Dublin,...
During the early nineteenth century the population of Cork expanded. By mid-century Cork had a population of about 80,000. The increase was due to migration from the countryside as people fled from poverty and in the 1840s, a terrible famine. This led to extremes of poverty and overcrowding in Cork city during this century.Another effect of this in...
Following the outbreak of World War I in 1914 many of Cork's National Volunteers enlisted to served with the Royal Munster Fusiliers, suffering heavy casualties both in Gallipoli and on the Western Front. In the period 1916–1923, Cork was embroiled in a conflict between Irish nationalists and the British state in Ireland. The turmoil of this period...
The local IRA units, for the most part, did not accept the Anglo-Irish Treaty negotiated to end the war -ultimately repudiating the authority of the newly created Irish Free State. After the withdrawal of British troops in early 1922, they took over the military barracks in Cork and the surrounding area. By July 1922, when the Irish Civil War, brok...
In the post independence period, Cork has been acknowledged as the Republic of Ireland's second city. It has produced a number of political leaders, notably Jack Lynch – who became Taoiseach(Irish prime minister) in the 1960s. Its citizens half jokingly refer to it as the "real capital". Cork's inner city slums were cleared by the municipal authori...
See Annals of Inisfallen(AI) 1. AI774.1 Kl. Selbach of Corcach rested. 2. AI792.2 Téróc, abbot of Corcach, rested in the Lord. 3. AI816.2 Repose of Conaing son of Donat, abbot of Corcach. 4. AI825.1 Kl. Repose of Flann son of Fairchellach, abbot of Les Mór, Imlech Ibuir, and Corcach. 5. AI836.1 Kl. Entry of Feidlimid into the abbacy of Corcach. 6. ...
Scene #2 City Hall, Cork . Taken at the time of the Cork Exhibition (1883), this image shows a bustling civic centre, full of life. Posters on the right-hand side advertise performances from Matthew's Minstrels and a Spring Show in the Corn Exchange. Just around the corner, beyond the archway, a small boy seems to be playing fiddle.
HISTORY OF CORK. Cork is an ancient city, settled by the Vikings that grew from maritime trade with Northern Europe and Britain in the 16th, 17th, 18th and 19th Century. The connection with the river and the sophistication of the architecture combined with the landscape of the surrounding hills to create a rich urban landscape of uniqueness and ...
Dec 10, 2020 · 1922-1923. The Irish Civil War Fatalities Project. 14/2/1981. Stardust. 10.4.1998. The Good Friday Agreement. On the morning of 11 December 1920, a climate of fear and uncertainty hung over the ...
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Cork is a city in County Cork in Ireland. It is the country's second largest city, only Dublin is larger. It is the third largest city on the island of Ireland, as Belfast is also larger. People from Cork are called Corkonians. It was founded by Saint Finbarr in the sixth century. 274,000 people live in Cork city and the surrounding urban areas ...
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