Cork, Co. Cork, Ireland - Grand Parade, bus traffic - CTC postcard c.1930s

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• Picture / Image:  Grand Parade, Cork - shows busy scene with bus, cars etc.
• Publisher:  CTC Ltd / Irish Tourist Association
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Cork (Irish: Corcaigh, pronounced ['ko?k??], from corcach, meaning ""marsh"") is a city in Ireland. It is located in the South-West Region and in the province of Munster. With a population of 119,230,^[2] it is the second largest city in the state and the third most populous on the island of Ireland. In 2005, it was selected as the European Capital of Culture.

The city is built on the River Lee which divides into two channels at the western end of the city. The city centre is located on the island created by the channels. At the eastern end of the city centre where the channels re-converge, quays and docks along the river banks lead to Lough Mahon and Cork Harbour, which is one of the world's largest natural harbours.^[3][4]

The city's cognomen of ""the rebel city"" originates in its support for the Yorkist cause during the English War of the Roses.^[5] Corkonians often refer to the city as ""the real capital"" in reference to the city's role as the centre of anti-treaty forces during the Irish Civil War.^{[citation needed]}

Cork was originally a monastic settlement founded by Saint Finbarr in the 6th century.^[6] Cork achieved an urban character at some point between 915 and 922 when Norseman (Viking) settlers founded a trading port.^[7] It has been proposed that, like Dublin, Cork was an important trading centre in the global Scandinavian trade network.

The city's charter was granted by Prince John, as Lord of Ireland, in 1185.^[8] The city was once fully walled, and some wall sections and gates remain today.^[9] For much of the Middle Ages, Cork city was an outpost of Old English culture in the midst of a predominantly hostile Gaelic countryside and cut off from the English government in the Pale around Dublin. Neighbouring Gaelic and Hiberno-Norman lords extorted ""Black Rent"" from the citizens to keep them from attacking the city. The present extent of the city has exceeded the medieval boundaries of the Barony of Cork City; it now takes in much of the neighbouring Barony of Cork. Together, these baronies are located between the Barony of Barrymore to the east, Muskerry East to the west and Kerrycurrihy to the south.

The city's municipal government was dominated by about 12–15 merchant families, whose wealth came from overseas trade with continental Europe – in particular the export of wool and hides and the import of salt, iron and wine. Of these families, only the Ronayne and O'Spaelain families were of Gaelic Irish origin.^{[citation needed]} The medieval population of Cork was about 2,100 people. It suffered a severe blow in 1349 when almost half the townspeople died of plague when the Black Death arrived in the town. In 1491, Cork played a part in the English Wars of the Roses when Perkin Warbeck a pretender to the English throne, landed in the city and tried to recruit support for a plot to overthrow Henry VII of England. The mayor of Cork and several important citizens went with Warbeck to England but when the rebellion collapsed they were all captured and executed.

A description of Cork written in 1577 speaks of the city as, ""the fourth city of Ireland"" that is, ""so encumbered with evil neighbours, the Irish outlaws, that they are fayne to watch their gates hourly ... they trust not the country adjoining [and only marry within the town] so that the whole city is linked to each other in affinity""

The title of Mayor of Cork was established by royal charter in 1318, and the title was changed to Lord Mayor in 1900 following the knighthood of the incumbent Mayor by Queen Victoria on her Royal visit to the city.^[10]

In the War of Independence, the centre of Cork was gutted by fires started by the British Black and Tans,^[11] and the city saw fierce fighting between Irish guerrillas and UK forces. During the Irish Civil War, Cork was for a time held by anti-Treaty forces, until it was retaken by the pro-Treaty National Army in an attack from the sea.

type=printed

city/ region=cork

period=inter-war (1918-39)

postage condition=unposted

number of items=single

size=standard (140x89mm)