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.
In pictures: Memories of Dunfermline s Pittencrieff Street
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Kildare History: Internment camps on the plains of the Curragh during the War of Independence
Rath Camp was opened 100 years ago
4 Apr 2021
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During the War of Independence (1919-21) County Kildare was home to one of the largest internment camps in the country. Thousands of men were imprisoned under emergency law internment without trial. The purpose of internment was to contain people the British authorities felt were a threat, without making charges or having the intent to file any.
On the morning of 21 November 1920 (Bloody Sunday), 14 British intelligence operatives were assassinated by members of Michael Collins’ Squad. Then in the afternoon crown forces opened fire on a crowd at a Croke Park, killing fourteen civilians and wounding 65. That night three republican prisoners were tortured and killed by their captors, the Auxiliaries, in Dublin Castle. As a direct consequence of Bloody Sunday the British authorities began a policy of large-scale arrests of known repub
Ambushes and attacks marked War of Independence in Kildare
The 2021 prorgramme of talks and seminars to mark the centenary of 1921 events is likely to move online due to Covid-19 restrictions
24 Jan 2021
Men from the North Kildare (1st) Battalion at Rath Internment Camp 1921. Pic: Kildare Local Studies, Newbridge Library );
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Since 2012 the Local Studies Department, Kildare County Library Service, and the County Kildare Decade of Commemorations Committee have been commemorating local people and events of the 1912-1923 period, as well as Kildare’s connections to national and international events.
The programme of commemorations began with Kildare people on board the ill-fated Titanic, and has included events and publications on Great Lock-out, World War I, the Easter Rising and the War of Independence.
The Local Studies Department of Cork County Council s Library and Arts Service has been undertaking a number of popular podcasts in recent months, and the timing of the latest release is perfect, it being titled the Christmas Traditions of Cork.
Cork County, containing a city, towns of various sizes, and remote peninsular areas, has a corresponding diversity of Christmas traditions. The podcast offers a representative selection varying from the amusing to the intensely moving and reflects the wealth of information on the subject in the holdings of the Reference and Local Department at Cork County Library. It is a most enjoyable listen, and you can do exactly that online at https://soundcloud.com/user-500658861/christmas-traditions-of-cork.
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