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In the early 1820s. Peter Robinson, a Canadian official, oversaw the emigration and resettlement of more than 2,500 Irish men , women and children, with support from the British government. Most originated from the Blackwater Valley in North County Cork, and made the transatlantic journey to begi...

James Wilkinson was and still is, to date, the longest-serving librarian of Cork City’s public libraries. Appointed in October 1892, he held the post of librarian for a forty-year tenure. James Wilkinson established the city’s public library service and was pioneering in developing children’s lib...

On Thursday June 10th 1909 some coal porters affiliated to the ITGWU at Messrs Sutton walked off their jobs as a result of having to work alongside others from the British based union the Workers Union of Great Britain and Ireland. What started as inter union hostility led to a prolonged and vici...