A provincial city helped build the modern world. This book starts with George Boole, the Cork professor whose logic runs inside every computer, then follows the thread out to Henry Ford, whose family came from Ballinascarthy and whose plant on the Marina put Cork on wheels. You will read about the factory city of Dunlop and Sunbeam, its collapse in the 1980s, and the reinvention that brought Pfizer and Apple. Ten chapters on how Cork made itself, lost itself, and made itself again. Illustrated. Digital download (PDF).
A provincial city helped build the modern world. This book starts with George Boole, the Cork professor whose logic runs inside every computer, then follows the thread out to Henry Ford, whose family came from Ballinascarthy and whose plant on the Marina put Cork on wheels. You will read about the factory city of Dunlop and Sunbeam, its collapse in the 1980s, and the reinvention that brought Pfizer and Apple. Ten chapters on how Cork made itself, lost itself, and made itself again. Illustrated. Digital download (PDF).
