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Lord Mayor Terence MacSwiney

On Tomás MacCurtain’s death Terence MacSwiney was elected Lord Mayor of Cork. Like MacCurtain, he had been a member of the Irish Volunteers and an enthusiast for the Irish language. He had also been imprisoned following the Easter Rising. A talented writer, he wrote a drama entitled ‘The Revolutionist’, several volumes of poetry and a political tract entitled ‘The Principles of Freedom’. As well as being Lord Mayor of Cork, he was the Commandant of the First Cork Brigade of Read more [...]

Lord Mayor Tomás MacCurtain

After Sinn Féin’s almost complete victory in the November 1918 general election and the setting up of the First Dáil in 1919, the political conflict between the British government and Republicans was to become a state of war. The War of Independence began with the Soloheadbeg ambush in January 1919. Tomás MacCurtain took an active role in the War of Independence. Originally from Ballyknockane in County Cork, he became involved with the Gaelic League, the Irish Republican Brotherhood and Read more [...]

Lord Mayor’s Community Heritage Concert 2010

The Lord Mayor’s Community Heritage Concert 2010   Lord Mayor, Councillor Michael O’Connell, --- Fellow Councillors, former Lord Mayors, President of Cork Lions club, Teresa Dineen. Special welcome to Cork to the Lions Club past district Governors and their wives. Mr Ted Owens CEO - City of Cork Vocational Education Committee… Guests, Ladies and Gentlemen Now we await that emotional piece “Time to Say Goodbye” sung by that great Cork duet and artists Read more [...]

Lord Mayor’s Community Heritage Concert 2010

The Lord Mayor’s Community Heritage Concert  2010   Lord Mayor, Councillor Michael O’Connell, --- Fellow Councillors, former Lord Mayors, President of Cork Lions club, Teresa Dineen. Special welcome to Cork to the Lions Club past district Governors and their wives. Mr Ted Owens CEO - City of Cork Vocational Education Committee… Guests, Ladies and Gentlemen Now we await that emotional piece “Time to Say Goodbye” sung by that great Read more [...]

An Scannalann- Cork Regional Film Archives

Cork Regional Digital Film Archive was set up in April of 2007 in order to promote the preservation of the moving image. The main function of our first project was to preserve films of the last 25 years of the Cork Youth Film Festival and to digitise them so that it would be available for the future. Since that beginning we have had numerous donations to the archive by way of old film clips etc In order to complete our work here we require a substantial amount of funding as the task is Read more [...]