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Official website. Cork (Irish: Corcaigh [ˈkɔɾˠkəɟ]; from corcach, meaning 'marsh') [6] is the second largest city in Ireland, the county town of County Cork, the largest city in the province of Munster and third largest on the island of Ireland. At the 2022 census, it had a population of 224,004.
2006. Cork began as a monastic settlement, founded by St Finbar in the sixth century. [9] However the ancestor of the modern city was founded between 915 and 922, [10] when Viking settlers established a trading community. [11] The Viking leader Ottir Iarla is particularly associated with raiding and conquests in the province of Munster.
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 club ...
Cork Public Museum. Cork Public Museum (Irish: Músaem Poiblí Chorcaí) [1] is a city museum in Cork, Ireland. Housed in a mid-19th century building within Fitzgerald Park in the Mardyke area of the city, [2] the museum's exhibits focus mainly on the history and archaeology of the Cork area. [3][4]
In 2022 his latest collection of short fiction was awarded 'One City One Book' for Cork City. It was the most borrowed adult fiction book at Cork City Library in 2022. [citation needed] Creedon's prose has been translated into German, Bulgarian, Italian, Chinese. including English extracts published in China. [citation needed]
St Patrick's Street (Irish: Sráid Naomh Pádraig) is the main shopping street of the city of Cork in the south of Ireland. The street was subject to redevelopment in 2004, and has since won two awards as Ireland's best shopping street. [1] St Patrick's Street is colloquially known to most locals as simply 'Patrick's Street', with the 'St ...
The old City Hall was designed by Cork architect Henry Hill in the neoclassical style, built by Sir Thomas Deane in ashlar stone and was completed in 1843. [1] In 1852 the building was altered by Sir John Benson to facilitate the Cork Exhibition, opening on 10 June 1852. Following the closure of a second exhibition in 1883, the building was ...
Royal Cork Institution was an Irish cultural institution in the city of Cork from 1803 to 1885. It consisted of a library of scientific works, a museum with old Irish manuscripts and stones with ogham inscriptions, and lecture and reading rooms. [ 1] A lack of funds resulted in its closure in 1885.