Category: Ireland

History of Cork, Ireland

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Cork, located on Ireland‘s south coast, is its second largest city within the Republic of Ireland after Dublin and the third largest on the island of Ireland after Dublin and Belfast. Cork City is the largest city in the province of Munster. Its history dates back to the 6th century. Origins Settler outpostCork has it beginnings in monastic settlement, […]

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Timeline of Dublin History – Burning of the Custom House 1921

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On 25 May 1921, during the Irish War of Independence, the Custom House in Dublin was occupied and then burnt in an operation by the Irish Republican Army (IRA). The Custom House was the headquarters of the Local Government Board for Ireland, an agency of the British administration in Ireland, against which the IRA was fighting in the name of the self-proclaimed Irish Republic. The […]

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