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Kieran McCarthy's blog about Cork City – Cork History Articles, Heritage and Photography & Historical Walking Tours
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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
Discover Cork: Schools’ Heritage Project 2020/21
1. Project Guidelines 2020/21
2. Application Form, 2020/21
3. Suggested Project Themes
4. Project Categories, Presentation & Prizes
5. Web Resources for Students
6. City Edition Results, 2021
Archive, City Edition Results 2019
Archive, City Edition Results, 2020
Archive, City Edition, Results 2017
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
8. 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
History Trail, Blackpool Area
History Trail, Bridges of Cork City Centre
History Trail, Cork’s South Docks
History Trail, Daly’s Bridge AKA Shakey Bridge
History Trail, Lee Fields
History Trail, MacCurtain Street to Penrose Quay
History Trail, Middle Parish Area
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
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
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
Heritage Links
Irish Placenames Project, logainm.ie
Ode to Cork Harbour
Ode to Elizabeth Fort, Cork
Ordnance Survey Ireland
Postcards of Cork, c.1900
William Lawrence’s Cork
River Lee Heritage Project
2. River Lee Heritage Trail
3. River Lee Heritage Photographic Exhibition
1. Fieldwork Reflections in the River Lee Valley
4. A River of Memory – PhD Work
Twinning
Visiting Cork
1.Tourism: How to get to Cork?
2. Cork Festivals
Kieran’s Heritage Events 2021
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
2. Application Form, 2020/21
Cork City Application Form, 2020/21
2020-21 City Brochure
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