Events
The turning points that shaped the city: the Norse who founded the port, the Normans who walled it, the siege that broke it, the Famine and emigration that emptied it, and the night the centre burned.
The Vikings Arrive
Norse raiders burned the monastery, then stayed and built the port that became Cork.
The Walled City
Anglo-Norman Cork: a town you could lock, two gates and the tide for a moat, founded on the marsh.
The Siege of Cork
One week broke the medieval walls and lodged a cannonball in the cathedral spire.
The Great Famine
An Gorta Mór. Cork was the funnel: the workhouse, the quays and the coffin ships.
The Cork Exhibition
Two summers of pavilions and water chutes on the Mardyke that left the city its finest park.
The Burning of Cork
The Black and Tans set fire to the city centre. St Patrick's Street burned through the night.
Walk this history
We walk the ground where each of these events happened, from the siege to the night the city burned.
Each of these events gets its own chapter in The Cork Stories Collection, ten illustrated books for €24.99.
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The families who stayed.
Cork kept losing people for eighty years after the Famine. In 1926 the new state counted the families who stayed. Homeplace maps any Irish surname from that count, county by county.
Donovan: 7,714 in Cork in 1901, 7,007 by 1926. Three in four Donovans in the Free State lived in Cork.
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