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Mon 26 Jul 2021, 4:08 AM 999b. Public open day at Roches Point Lighthouse, 4 June 2017 – celebrating 200 years since its construction. The event was organised by the Cork Harbour Heritage Alliance in association with the Commissioners of Irish Lights. (picture: Kieran McCarthy)
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Mon 26 Jul 2021, 4:08 AM
My new book ‘The Little book of Cork Harbour’ has recently been published by The History Press. Following on from last week, below is another snippet from the book– focussing on some aspects of Roches Point Lighthouse and Daunt Rock lightship in the harbour.
Roches Point Lighthouse
Around 1640-1650 AD, the Roche family purchased the Fitzgerald estate (approx. 1,500 acres) from Edmund Fitzgerald of Ballymaloe and lived for many centuries at Trabolgan. Roches Point at the mouth of Cork Harbour is named after this family. In post medieval
Last updated: 1008b. Carnegie Library, Anglesea Street, Cork, circa 1900. Source: Kieran McCarthy
The life and death of a pioneering philanthropist Published: Last updated:
Mon 26 Jul 2021, 4:17 AM
On 11 August 1919, almost one hundred years ago, a good friend of Cork’s library service passed away in Lennox, Massachusetts, USA.
Mr Andrew Carnegie, funder of many Irish libraries and Cork City Library passed away after a brief illness – after contracting bronchial pneumonia. Mr Carnegie was born at Dunfermline in Scotland on 25 November 1835 and emigrated to the United States in 1848.
He settled in Pittsburgh and was for 13 years in the service of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company. He worked for some time as an iron moulder, rising stop by step until he controlled great steel rolling mills in that city.
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Sun 25 Jul 2021, 2:34 AM
IRA casualties from the ongoing War of Independence across the city continued all the way into the July 1921 truce.
On 21 June, Commandant Walter Leo Murphy was shot dead at Waterfall (a few miles from Ballincollig) when an IRA meeting in a local public house was encircled by two carloads of British undercover officers. He shot his way out of the public house but was subsequently killed.
A commemorative plaque erected at Turnerâs Cross to D Company 2nd Battalion commemorates Company Adjutant Charles Daly of 5 Glenview, Douglas Road, who was captured by British forces at Waterfall on 28 June 1921.
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Sun 25 Jul 2021, 2:51 AM 1066a. Former site of St Patrick s Hospital on Wellington Road, present day. (picture: Kieran McCarthy)
The 150th anniversary of Marymount Published: Last updated:
Sun 25 Jul 2021, 2:51 AM
Mid-September 1920 coincided with the fiftieth anniversary of the opening of St Patrick’s Hospital on Wellington Road.
The anniversary was referenced in Cork newspapers. This year 2020 marks the 150th anniversary of the hospital’s foundation but in recent years has been relocated to Curraheen and has morphed into the Marymount University Hospital and Hospice.
The original hospital from 1870 was the brainchild of the Sisters of Charity. They had won the admiration of Cork general practitioner Dr Patrick Murphy from an early stage. The Sisters had visited his father and sister on their deathbeds during the cholera epidemic of 1832. Dr Murphy had owned a tan-yard and some house prope