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Cork gets its name from the marsh on which the city is built.
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Dr. Margaret O'Callaghan charts Ireland’s important historical events from the earliest hunter-gatherers in 9000 BC right up to recent times.
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List of Casualties at the Battle of Aughrim
This list is taken from George Story's "An Impartial History of the Wars in Ireland". Story was a chaplain with the Williamite army and recorded events as they took place. It lists some of the officers, soldiers and horses killed and wounded at the Battle of Aughrim in 1691.
Longford Workhouse
The Irish poet Pádraic Colum was born in 1881 at Longford Workhouse, where his father was workhouse master.
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French Landing at Bantry Bay
In late December 1796 Wolfe Tone and a fleet of about 43 ships with 15,000 men set sail from France towards Ireland with the intention of over throwing English rule. However, despite Wolfe Tone's preparations in France, the weather was victorious on this occasion. Before the ships could leave Brest harbour one ship had already been separated from the main fleet. During the night that followed, across the English Channel, 7 other ships separated from the main party. One of the 7 included the ship of General Hoche, one of the Commanders-in-chief of the rising. Bad weather continued splitting the fleet further and preventing Tone and his men from landing, resulting in only 7 'Sail of the line' or war ships and one frigate remaining after a week of bad weather in Bantry Bay. The rebellion was abandoned and Wolfe Tone returned to France.
Patrick Sarsfield, First Earl of Lucan
Patrick Sarsfield played an important role on the Jacobite side during the Williamite war in Ireland.
Courtesy of 'The History of County Dublin, 1906'.
Ordnance Survey Ireland Map
Ordnance Survey Map of Waterford City 25" series Published 1907
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Andrew Carnegie
Andrew Carnegie Millionaire and Philantropist. One of Carnegie's lifelong interests was the establishment of free public libraries to make available to everyone a means of self-education.
Courtesy of Waterford City Library
Ardkeen Library Reference
Reference area in Ardkeen Library which was opened in 2002
Courtesy of Waterford City Library Services
Queen's College, Galway
A photograph of Queen's College, Galway; this photograph is part of the Lawrence collection at Galway library.
Courtesy of Galway County Library
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A History of the Diocese of Raphoe, by the Very Rev. E. Canon Maguire, D.D. Formerly Professor of Rhetoric, Maynooth; author of "St. Adomnan," "Ballyshannon," "Letterkenny," &c. Part I: Ecclesiastical. Second Volume. Dublin: Browne and Nolan, Limited, Belfast, Cork & Waterford.
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Records relating to the Dioceses of Ardagh and Clonmacnoise
Records relating to the Dioceses of Ardagh and Clonmacnoise by the Very Rev. John Canon Monahan, D.D., V.F. With map. Dublin: M.H. Gill and Son, O'Connell Street, 1886.
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