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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.
Harvesting of cork from the forests of Algeria, 1930. Cork is a natural material used by humans for over 5,000 years. It is a material whose applications have been known since antiquity, especially in floating devices and as stopper for beverages, mainly wine, whose market, from the early twentieth century, had a massive expansion, particularly due to the development of several cork based ...
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.
County Cork (Irish: Contae Chorcaí) is the largest and the southernmost county of Ireland, named after the city of Cork, the state's second-largest city. It is in the province of Munster and the Southern Region. Its largest market towns are Mallow, Macroom, Midleton, and Skibbereen. As of 2022, the county had a population of 584,156, making it ...
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.
University College Cork. University College Cork – National University of Ireland, Cork (UCC) [4] (Irish: Coláiste na hOllscoile Corcaigh) is a constituent university of the National University of Ireland, and located in Cork. The university was founded in 1845 as one of three Queen's Colleges located in Belfast, Cork, and Galway. [5]
Christ Church, also known as Holy Trinity, [8] was the "main church" in Cork city by the 17th century. [5] Substantially destroyed during the 1690 Siege of Cork, the remaining structures of the early medieval church were demolished in 1716 and the current neo-classical building was completed in the 1720s. [6]
The burning of Cork (Irish: Dó Chorcaí) [1][2] by British forces took place on the night of 11–12 December 1920, during the Irish War of Independence. It followed an Irish Republican Army (IRA) ambush of a British Auxiliary patrol in the city, which wounded twelve Auxiliaries, one fatally. In retaliation, the Auxiliaries, Black and Tans and ...