County Cork, highlighted.
Choose from topics below for stories of people, families, events and places connected to County Cork and Cork City’s past.
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Vanishing Ireland (Cork people)
- Mary Maddison, storyteller, the Beara Peninsula
- Ellen O’Keeffe (1920-2017), housewife, Caherlaska
- Timmy O’Keeffe (1931-2017), farmer, Caherlaska
- Patsy Kingston (1935-2018), farmer, soldier + bus driver, Caherlaska
- Frank Maher (1936-2014), carpenter & fisherman, River Blackwater, Doneraile
- Philip Lecane (1924-2024), Cork City newsagent: A Vanishing Ireland Podcast
- Con Durrihy (1941-2025), schoolteacher, Castletownbere: A Vanishing Ireland Podcast
County Cork – Family Histories
- Becher of Aughadown House and Lough Ine House, Skibbereen
- Benson, linked to Ballyvolane House
- Boyle, Earls of Shannon of Castlemartyr etc.
- Dacres Dixon of Ballyhooley
- Hare, Earl of Listowel – Convamore, Ballyhooley
- Harrington of the Beara
- Holroyd-Smyth of Ballynatray
- MacCarthys of Munster
- Moore, Earls of Mount Cashell – Kilworth
- McCarthy of Buttevant
- McCarthy of Gortroe, County Cork
- Musgrave of Cork City
- O’Callaghan of Bannagh House, Kanturk
- O’Callaghan of Banteer House, Clonmeen
- O’Callaghan of Clonmeen and Duhallow
- Pyne of Ballyvolane, referenced here.
- Supple of Aghadoe Castle, Co. Cork
- Yelverton, Viscounts Avonmore, of Blackwater
Turtle’s Cork Projects
People connected to County Cork
- Sir William Stanley – Hero, Traitor & Bunburying in Tudor Ireland
- Sir Walter Raleigh in Ireland
- Richard Boyle (1566–1643) – The Great Earl of Cork
- Pirate Hull of Leamcon, West Cork
- Justin MacCarthy, Viscount Mountcashel
- Matthias Buchinger (1674-1739) – A Most Astonishing German in Ireland
- Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797) – A Pioneering Feminist in Ireland
- Olaudah Equiano (Gustavus Vassa) in Cork, 1791
- Adam Buck (1760–1833) – Maestro of the Georgian Miniature
- Tenducci: The Italian Castrato & His Irish Wife
- Barry O’Meara (1786-1836) – Napoleon’s Doctor
- Venerable Mary Aikenhead (1787-1858)
- Charles Bianconi (1786-1875) – The Man who put Ireland on Wheels
- James Barry (1789-1865): The Man Who Was A Woman
- Billy Grace (1832-1904), Prince of Peru, Mayor of New York
- William Whitelocke-Lloyd: The Irishman who Sketched the Zulu War
- George Maurice Ievers (1850-1908)
- Admiral Rough Fitzgerald of Corkbeg & the Order of the White Feather
- Gottfried Freiherr von Banfield (1890–1986) – The Bandon Link to the Eagle Of Trieste
- Henry Ford (1863 –1947)
- Gunner Tom Barry – An IRA Man at the Siege of Kut
- D. D. Sheehan (1873-1948) – An Irish Nationalist in the Great War
- Mick Mannock, Irish Air Ace
- Sam Maguire & Liam MacCarthy – For Whom the Cups are Named
- Tomas Kent (1865-1916)
- Mae Coughlin (1897-1986) – The Cork family of Al Capone’s Wife
- Elizabeth Bowen (1899-1973)
- “The Major” – Hugh Caruthers Massy (1914-1987)
- Sonia O’Sullivan – Ireland’s 5000 Metre Star
Places in Cork
- Ballyvolane House – The Place of the Springing Heifers
- Banteer
- The Bulman – Kinsale
- Cobh (Queenstown)
- Cork City – History Snapshots for Kent Station (Past Tracks)
- Cork City Gaol
- Kanturk
- Macroom
- Mallow
- Ringaskiddy
- Spike Island – Australian Convicts & the Vagrancy Act
Articles with a Cork Connection
- The Forgotten Cult of St John the Baptist
- Vikings on Irish Waterways
- Normans on the Irish Waterways
- Rise & Fall of the Knights Templar – The Irish Experience
- The Palatines in Ireland
- Ireland’s Wine Geese
- Keeping it in the Family – A Short Study of Nepotism under the Anglo-Irish
- How Ireland’s MPs voted in the Act of Union in 1799 & 1800
- The Whiteboy Insurrection in Macroom, 1822
- The Choctaw Nation’s Extraordinary Gift to Ireland, 1847 (Midleton statue)
- Corrupt Banking in Victorian Ireland
- Murder at Shandy Hall – The Coachford Posioning Case, 1887
- Titanic – The Irish Connections
- The Royal Munster Fusiliers at Seddelbahr, 1915
- The Sinking of RMS Lusitania, 1915
- The Coolnacaheragh Ambush, 1921
- Maxol – The History of an Irish Family Company
- The Irish and the White House
- Waterways Through Time
- Waterways Through Time – Season 2
- Bertha’s Revenge (2015-2025)