Item category 1: Reference Room

In December 1920, the Carnegie Free Library on Anglesea Street in Cork was destroyed by a fire set by members of the British Crown Forces, along with the adjoining City Hall, and large swathes of the city centre. Librarian and poet Thomas McCarthy tells the story of the destruction of the librar...

The second of a regular series of Cork anthologies - Cork writers, some already well-known and some who will be better known, have contributed poems and prose pieces which celebrate Cork, a city of writers, a city of readers,