That was the state of affairs described by the correspondent for The Irish Times in the days following the Burning of Cork on the night of December 11th-12th 1920. That night, 100 years ago ...
‘The Burning of Cork’ a documentary on the burning of Cork City on the night of 11 December 1920. Compiled from eyewitness accounts, and presented by Aindreas O Gallchobhair. Broadcast 18 ...
"Cork has this very peculiar effect, a slow burning process. It will absorb heat without transferring it." As head of the unit tasked with dreaming up new ways for Amorim to profit from cork that ...
By the time the first creamery burning took place in County Cork at Banteer on October 8th, the country was in a volatile state. The deaths of Terence McSwiney and Kevin Barry in these weeks were ...
Via Sunday Miscellany, listen to The Burning of Cork, and Songs for a Burning City, by Ger Fitzgibbon, above. Two weeks to go before Christmas, but the town was not as busy as you might expect.
Gardaí were called to the scene of the death near Doneraile, County Cork, on Thursday afternoon A man has been charged with the murder of a woman whose body was found in a burning car in County ...
It was a grim postscript to the burning of Cork the previous weekend, or more precisely to the ambush that had precipitated the burning. In this case, the Auxiliaries responsible were on the way ...
A member of An Garda Síochána was allegedly assaulted, a Garda vehicle rammed, a Deliveroo worker rammed off his moped and seriously injured and a stolen car burnt out at a loss of €15,000 and ...