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The town of Kinsale is located near the mouth of the River Bandon in County Cork. The area is famous for its majestic marina which contains luxury yahts and is home to many sailing clubs.
The town is rich with history and has many different pieces of impressive architecture scattered around the local area. For people that like historical sites the area has Charles Fort and Desmond Castle; a building which now houses the International Museum of Wine. The area also has many fine restaurants offering gourmet cuisine, trendy bars and interesting shops.
The Kinsale area is perfect for people that love historic buildings and history laden areas. With the local wine museum and a marina filled with yahts this is a perfect town to explore and learn about the country.
A CITY BY THE SEA - THE MARITIME HISTORY OF CORK HARBOUR
The story of over 1000 years of Cork's maritime history, told though the tales of the pirates, patriots, emigrants, queens, chancers & warriors who sailed upon the River Lee and beheld Cork City and Harbour in ages past. The exhibition is curated by historian Turtle Bunbury.
Curator - Turtle Bunbury
Producers - The Hidden Story (Jacqui Doyle, Siobhan Geoghegan)
YouTube Film - Ian O'Leary (St Peter's, Cork)
Thanks also to Eileen O'Shea (St Peter’s, Cork), Christine Moloney (LeisureWorld), John Mullins (Cork City Libraries), Cllr Kieran McCarthy, Brian McGee (Cork City & County Archive), Justin Green (Bertha’s Revenge) and DoylePrint.ie
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A BRIEF HISTORY OF CORK HARBOUR
St. Peter’s Church, Cork, presents an exhibition to celebrate the Irish city’s long and extraordinary maritime heritage. Opening in Spring 2017, ‘A City by the Sea’ offers a whistle-stop tour of the eventful history of both the city and its harbour, providing an insight into its commercial and military past, as well as exploring the poignant legacy of the millions of emigrants who passed through the harbour.
The history is fascinating. Set amid the marshlands of the River Lee, Cork has been a maritime hub since records began. There were at least sixteen ringforts on Great Island alone, while cairns, barrow-graves and dolmens speckle the pasturelands either side of the harbour. The early Christian monastery that stood by the present-day site of St Fin Barre's Cathedral drew the wrath of Viking raiders in the 9th century. The city served as the capital of the Kingdom of Desmond from 1118 until Anglo-Norman marauders defeated the MacCarthys seven decades later. St. Peter’s Church was one of many buildings erected shortly after the city was incorporated as a Royal borough by the future King John.
Cork prospered in the medieval period as trade flourished with Bristol and the wine-ports of France. International politics repeatedly came to bear, most notably in 1499 when the Mayor of Cork was executed for supporting Perkin Warbeck’s rebellion against Henry VII, and again in 1518 when Archduke Ferdinand, the future Holy Roman Emperor, visited nearby Kinsale.
During the reign of Queen Elizabeth, the region was laid waste by English and Irish armies alike in a war that utterly destroyed the once indomitable Earl of Desmond. Meanwhile, a combination of pirate raids and an unsuccessful Spanish invasion led to the construction of new and sturdier fortifications around the harbour.
Following the collapse of Gaelic Ireland at the battle of Kinsale in 1601, the English constructed the star-shaped Elizabeth Fort just outside the city walls. Cork’s defences were gradually strengthened over the 17th century but many of its citizens were fated for a miserable death in 1690 when Williamite forces ran riot in the streets after a battle in which the Duke of Grafton, a son of King Charles II, was killed.
The flight of the Wild Geese saw many of Cork’s leading Catholic families up sticks for Europe where several of them became prominent wine merchants. Meanwhile, French and Dutch Protestant settlers reclaimed substantial parts of Cork’s waterways and established themselves as leading traders and textile manufacturers. With the inexorable rise of the British Empire, Cork took its place as the island’s Ox-Slaying Capital as more and more ships pulled into the harbour to load up with salted beef and butter for the long Atlantic journeys.
By the time of the American War of Independence, Cork was the primary logistical base for British ships bound for North America. The city retained this prominence through the Napoleonic Wars, during which many of the present-day forts and Martello towers were built, but by the 1840s the harbour was becoming much better known as a place of sorrow with upwards of three million emigrants leaving Ireland over the next century.
Cork continued to play a very active role in the 20th century, most notably as the base for the United States naval campaign against Germany in World War One and as home to what was once the largest tractor manufacturing plant in the world. Acclaimed globally as the European City of Culture in 2005, Cork continues to be as vibrant and energetic a city as it has ever been, with the River Lee pulsating through its heart, channelling its waters south to the harbour and out into the oceans beyond.
List of food and beverage museums | Wikipedia audio article
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This is a list of food and beverage museums. Food museums, beverage museums and wine museums generally provide information about how various foodstuffs are produced or were historically produced. Many of these museums are owned and operated by specific food and beverage production companies.