Cork Walking Tour · Free Book
Every walk comes with a free Cork history book
Book the Cork City Walking Tour and take home a Cork history book, free, after the walk. Ten titles. You choose.
All ten books. The story of Cork.
The walk is €25. Each book sells for €5.99 in the shop, but every guest gets one free with their ticket.
How the free book works
- 1Book any departure. Saturday and Sunday, 10:00 and 13:30, from The Counting House on South Main Street.
- 2Take the walk. Seventy-five to ninety minutes through the old heart of the city with a local guide, from Shandon to St Fin Barre's.
- 3Choose your book. Come back to this page after the walk. Pick any of the ten titles below and download it immediately.
The book is a gift to every guest. You get it for turning up, not for leaving a review.
Already walked with us? Claim your book
Pick a title below and tap Claim. Add it to your cart, then paste this code at checkout. The download starts right away, no email or waiting.
One free book per guest. The code works once.
Got a personal code from your guide? Use it on our thank-you page instead. It also takes 20% off the shop.
Choose from ten Cork history books
Each book tells the city through real people and places, not a list of dates. Every title runs 80 to 100 illustrated pages, downloads as a PDF, and reads in any order.
Ancient Cork
Cork before the city: stone circles, holy wells, and Finbarr's monastery on the marsh.
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Blarney Castle
The castle's story, the MacCarthy lords, and the Battle of Kinsale, 1601.
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Merchant Cork
How Cork made its money: butter roads, salt beef for the Navy, and the merchant families of the South Mall.
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The Great Hunger
The Famine inside the city and county, from the workhouse to Skibbereen.
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Leaving Cork
The great leaving through Cork Harbour, Annie Moore at Ellis Island, and tracing your Cork ancestors.
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The Fenians
Cork republicanism through the 1800s: O'Donovan Rossa, the Irish People arrests, and the rising of 1867.
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Rebel Cork
Mac Curtain, MacSwiney, Tom Barry's flying column, the Burning of Cork, and Michael Collins.
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Stout and Whiskey
Murphy's, Beamish, the distilleries, Cork gin and Tanora, and Father Mathew's war on drink.
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Cork and the Modern World
How a small city shaped the modern world: Boole's logic, Ford's Marina plant, Apple at Hollyhill.
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Women of the Rebellion
From Nano Nagle's hidden schools to the women of Cumann na mBan and the hunger strikes of 1923.
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You can read all 36 Cork history stories free at Cork History. Or get the books in the shop: €5.99 each, €24.99 for all ten.
Walk it, then read it
Shandon, the English Market, City Hall and St Fin Barre's are all stops on the Cork City Walking Tour. Book one, and choose the book that carries the story home.