Cork’s English Market was created in 1788 by the Protestant or “English” corporation that controlled the city at that time. It was a new flagship municipal market located at the heart of the new commercial city centre.

When local government was reformed in 1840, and the representatives of the city’s Catholic, “Irish” majority took over, they established another covered food market, St. Peter’s Market (now the Bodega Bar on Cornmarket Street), which became known as the “Irish Market” to distinguish it from its older counterpart which remained associated with its English creators.  It is thus that the name “English Market” dates from this era of transition.

WATCH a very quick ramble through the English Market by Discover Ireland:

WATCH a short film with interviews on Cork’s English Market by Discover Ireland:

This website English Market – Cork City Council includes individual trader pages, a history section, recipes section, and gallery section, and provides a good information resource to anyone interested in the English Market. This website http://www.englishmarket.ie/ includes individual trader pages, a history section, recipes section, and gallery section, and provides a good information resource to anyone interested in the English Market.

– LISTEN to RTE’s Radio 1 journey into Cork City’s labyrinth that is the English Market – RTÉ Radio 1: Documentary on One – Cork’s Hidden Village (rte.ie)

– Christmas in the English Market: