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2. Kieran’s Cork Historical Walking Tours & Talks
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Cork Independent Our City, Our Town Articles
1999-2005 Histories of Cork
2006-2011 River Lee – In the Steps of St Finbarr
2012-14 Crawford Municipal Technical Institute, Education & Industrial Development
2014-16 Mapping Cork Histories
2016 Remembering 1916
2017 The Wheels of 1917
2018 Stories from 1918
2019 Tales from 1919
2020 Remembering 1920
2021 Journeys to a Truce 1921
2022 Journeys to a Free State 1922
Discover Cork: Schools’ Heritage Project 2021/22
1. Project Guidelines, 2021/22
2. Application Form, 2021/22
3. Suggested Project Themes
4. Project Categories, Presentation & Prizes
5. Web Resources for Students
6. City Edition Results 2022
Archive, City Edition Results 2019
Archive, City Edition Results, 2020
Archive, City Edition Results, 2021
Archive, City Edition, Results 2018
3. Project Page Examples
Exploring Cork City’s History
10. Twenty-First Century Cork
1a. St. Finbarre – Myth and Legend
1b. A Viking Maritime Town
1c. Notes on Cork’s Viking Settlement
2a. Anglo-Normans and the Medieval Town
2b. Life in Medieval Cork
2c. Developing a Port Town
2d. Creating the Cork Coat of Arms
3a. Matters of Conquest, c.1500-1600
3b. Seventeenth Century Cork
3c. Siege of Cork, 1690
4a. Cork, A Venice of North West Europe
4b. Huguenots and Quakers
5a. A Changing Townscape, early 1800s
5b. The Great Famine in Cork City
6. The International City, c.1900
7. Cork International Exhibition, 1902-1903
8a. Cork and the War of Independence, 1920
8b. The Burning of Cork City, 1920
9a. Early Twentieth Century & Suburban Expansion
9b. Late Twentieth Century Highlights
5c. On Track, Cork & its Railway Heritage
History Trails
1. Bridges of Cork Audio Heritage Trail
2. The Marina Audio Heritage Trail
History Trail, Blackpool Area
History Trail, Cork’s South Docks
History Trail, Daly’s Bridge AKA Shakey Bridge
History Trail, Grand Parade
History Trail, Lee Fields
History Trail, MacCurtain Street to Penrose Quay
History Trail, Middle Parish Area
History Trail, Oliver Plunkett Street
History Trail, Paul Street District, From Cornmarket Street to Emmett Place
History Trail, Seamus Murphy, Cork Sculptor
History Trail, Shandon Street Area
History Trail, The Mardyke Walk Area
History Trail, The Marina
History Trail, The Walled Town of Cork
History Trail, The Young Offenders TV Show, Cork Locations, 2018
History Trail, Barrack Street Area
History Trail, St Patrick’s Street Area
Regions of County Cork
Cork Harbour Pictures
Cork Harbour Stories
River Lee History Trail
West Cork Gems
Resources For Researchers
Archaeological and Architectural Heritage Sources in Cork City and County
Biodiversity/ Nature in Cork
Cork City and County Archives
Cork City in Maps
Cork Film Heritage
Cork Folklore Project
Cork Heritage Open Day
Cork Historical Societies
Cork in the 1960s, Anthony Barry Archive
Cork Public Museum
Cork Slang
Irish Placenames Project, logainm.ie
Ode to Elizabeth Fort, Cork
Ordnance Survey Ireland
Postcards of Cork, c.1900
Resources for Family Research
Ancestry.co.uk Irish and UK Family Records
Census of Ireland 1901/ 1911
Cork Records Website
Irish Genealogy Toolkit
Irish Military Archives
Irish War Memorials
Useful Links For Irish Heritage Sites
William Lawrence’s Cork
Visiting Cork
1.Tourism: How to get to Cork?
2. Cork Festivals
Twinning
Kieran’s Heritage Events 2022
Photographing Cork
1. Kieran’s Fav & Recent Photos of Cork
Ode to Ballincollig Royal Gunpowder Mills:
Ode to Fitzgerald’s Park, Cork
Ode to St Finbarr’s Cemetery, Cork
Ode to the English Market, Cork
Ode to The Quadrange, UCC
Ode to St. Finbarre’s Cathedral
3. Project Page Examples
