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Recasting Cork: The tragedy of the stray bullet

On Saturday night, 21 April 1923, one of the last tragic deaths prior to the Civil War truce occurred on the streets of Cork city. The Cork Examiner records that William Murphy, 42 years of age, married, a labourer employed at Murphy's Brewery, and a resi. ....

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Cork tragedy that led to birth of fire brigade

145 years ago this month, Cork Fire Brigade attended its first blaze. PAT POLAND recalls a horrific fatal inferno three years earlier that led to its . ....

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Remembering 1920: The Barrack Street ambush

As the War of Independence intensified, the tit-for-tat violence continued in late September and into October 1920. The IRA launched an audacious ambush in the centre of Cork city on Barrack Street that month. ....

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