The Courthouse & Regional Museum, Kinsale, Cork, Ireland
- The Courthouse & Regional Museum, Kinsale, Cork, Ireland
Desmond Castle In Kinsale Ireland
A short video of the Desmond Castle located in Kinsale Ireland. This stone castle served several purposes thooghout the centuries including serving as a prison for French sailors. Operated by the OPW the castle is a short walk from the Kinsale waterfront.
Jeanneau Sun Dream sailing out of kinsale co cork ireland
Jeanneau Sun Dream sailing out of kinsale co cork ireland
Kinsale is a town on the southern coast of Ireland, in County Cork. Two 17th-century fortresses overlook the River Bandon: the vast, star-shaped Charles Fort to the southeast, and the smaller James Fort on the river's opposite bank. The 16th-century courthouse building houses the Kinsale Regional Museum, with a variety of displays on local history and information about the 1915 sinking of the RMS Lusitania.
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St. Catherine's Church, Rincurran, Kinsale, Cork, Ireland
- St. Catherine's Church, Rincurran, Kinsale, Cork, Ireland
Desmond Castle, Kinsale, Cork, Ireland
- Desmond Castle, Kinsale, Cork, Ireland
St. Multose Church Kinsale, Cork, Ireland
- St. Multose Church Kinsale, Cork, Ireland
James Fort, Kinsale, Cork, Ireland
- James Fort, Kinsale, Cork, Ireland
St John the Baptist Church Kinsale, Cork, Ireland
- St John the Baptist Church Kinsale, Cork, Ireland
Carmelite Friary Church Kinsale, Cork, Ireland
- Carmelite Friary Church Kinsale, Cork, Ireland
Charles Fort, Kinsale, Cork, Ireland
- Charles Fort, Kinsale, Co. Cork, Ireland
Carmelite Cemetery Kinsale, Cork, Ireland
- Carmelite Cemetery Kinsale, Cork, Ireland
Old Bank Town House Kinsale
In the heart of the stunning coastal town of Kinsale, only 20 minutes from Cork City, the Old Bank Town House is the perfect base for your trip away with the family or your loved one or for a golfing break with spectacular courses such as The Old Head Golf Links on your doorstep. Step out through the Georgian front doors and into any of Kinsale’s famous bars and restaurants. You’ll be spoiled for choice! With a street side Cafe and Gourmet Food Store, it’s a real foodie haven and its friendly personal service and attention to detail will always ensure your visit to Kinsale's Old Bank Town House is a special one.
Old Bank Town House is located on the Wild Atlantic Way - Experience a true inspirational journey starting in Kinsale.
Elizabeth Fort/Barrack St Location
Part of my research for Urban Interventions Cork, for more see
Geological Map of Ireland
Video based on a simplified Geological Map of Ireland. Made using Clips and Keynote on iPad.
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.
Battle of kinsale
Red coats attack kinsale cork
Cliff-Nesting Seabirds of Gull Island
Each year, cliff-nesting seabirds signal a change of season when they return to Gull Island. Pelagic birds live at sea for most of the year. They return to remote islands during their summer nesting cycle. Gull Island, a series of jagged rocks twelve miles from Seldovia Museum and nine miles from the Pratt Museum, is situated in the middle of Kachemak Bay. This unique rookery hosts a nesting colony of over 15,000 birds, including 12,000 Black-legged Kittiwakes and 5,000 Common Murres.
For thousands of years people have utilized the valued resources at Gull Island. Like their ancestors before them, the Sugpiaq Alutiiq and Dena'ina Athabascan of this region continue to gather eggs in the springtime.
Gull Island is protected and off-limits to visitors except for approved Native harvest. This remote-controlled camera is currently operated from the public galleries of the Pratt Museum in Homer, Alaska. Visit the museum to control the camera and explore Gull Island for yourself!
Top 10 Most Colorful Cities In The World
10. Wroclaw, Poland: The capital of Lower Silesia is a splendid city of Poland. It has so many attractions to captivate the attention of the tourists, such as hundreds of bridges, finest restaurants, cafes, nightlife, cultural and historic delights. This is not the end—because the rows of colorful houses give an extra beauty to this city.
9. Valparaiso, Chile: This port city is one of the best historical and cultural hubs of Chile. Having a wide array of museums, cathedrals, churches and colonial buildings, Valparaiso will make your tour ideal. The coastal area of the city is especially famous among the boat and cruise lovers, here you can come to enjoy various water activities at the sea point.
8. Jodhpur, India: Jodhpur in Rajasthan is India’s Blue City. It has well painted buildings with colorful architecture and eye catching styles of constructions. Most of its buildings have been constructed from the copper-sulphate lime wash which is used for preventing termites.
7. Buenos Aires, Argentina: This small yet marvelous city is amazing constructed and almost all of its buildings are constructed with scrap materials including leftover paints, giving a visually attractive feeling to the viewers. The city has less population, so it can be ideal for you to make a trip here.
6. Burano Island, Italy: Burano Island is an archipelago of four islands, situated in the Venetian province of Italy. With its beautiful streets and canals, Burano Island has so much to offer to the tourists. What makes it colorful is its gondolas sailings, streets and canals lined with beautiful, and bright buildings.
5. Pattaya, Thailand: Pattaya has numerous exotic beaches, and is a city of blue waters. It is a great tourist spot and tourists are always invited to give a try to its marvelous buildings and get amazed with. Here you can also enjoy food, while enthralling scenic beauty of the city.
4. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: The Brazil government, back in 2010, has taken initiatives to redecorate the favelas or slums of Rio de Janeiro. Dutch artists, Haas & Hahn, played their role in giving a new attractive look to the slums of the city, and turned them into a giant canvas.
3. Nyhavn, Copenhagen: This 17th century canal, waterfront and entertainment district in Denmark consists of numerous well-painted buildings, and stretches from the Kongens Nytorv to the harbor front in the south of the Royal Playhouse. Here you can view many of 17th and 18th century buildings, such as townhouses, bars, cafes and restaurants.
2. Izamal, Mexico: Izamal is known to be a ‘magical city’. It is the monochromatic region of Izamal, having vivid sunny yellow buildings and marvelous restaurants. The colonial colony is behind this much visual beauty of the city.
1. St. John’s, Canada: St. John’s is the capital of Newfoundland and Labrador, and is one of the oldest cities in Canada. Both have rich history dating back from 14th century. The best thing about these two lands is the beautiful buildings with their astounding architecture, and pleasant environment.
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Alone Onstage at the Ancient Greek Theater of Epidavros
One of my great treats is being literally all alone (with a fine local guide) at some of our civilization’s greatest sights. With this clip, you’re here with me — late in the day when it’s silent and cool — at Epidavros, the most amazing theater surviving from the ancient world. After visiting so many museums here in Greece, I couldn’t help but notice how my guide, Patty, actually has an “archaic” smile — perfectly matching the enigmatic little grin you see on the statues from Greece’s Archaic Period (500 to 700 B.C.), before the Golden Age came and saddled us with reality.
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Weathering the Storm: A Fish Story of Ireland and Irish America
“Why didn’t the Irish fish when the potato crop failed during the Great Hunger of the late 1840s?” is a perennial question asked by the perplexed in a modern world with a global infrastructure. An examination of one family’s migration from an Irish-speaking fishing village in County Waterford to the American seaport of Gloucester, Massachusetts, in the post-Famine era, seeks to answer this persistent question.
The Power brothers left their homeland in the early 1850s at the same time on different ships. Having promised to find and marry two sisters they met in Ireland, the brothers eventually arrived in Boston where they did indeed find and marry the sisters.
The Powers were not unskilled when they arrived in America. They were the heirs to a millennium-long tradition of deep-sea fishing in Ireland. Eventually settling in Gloucester, a premier fishing port on the North Atlantic coast, they plied their heritage in a new world.
This is the story of frontiersmen working in the wilderness of the open sea, and of the connection between Irish and Irish-American fishing traditions. The Irish did indeed catch fish during and after the Famine, as they long had done.
JANET NOLAN is professor emerita of history at Loyola University Chicago, where she taught Irish and Irish-American history for almost a quarter of a century after receiving her PhD in history from the University of Connecticut. She has also taught full-time at the Universities of Connecticut and Rhode Island. She is the author of two books: “Ourselves Alone: Women and Emigration from Ireland, 1885-1920”
(1989) and “Servants of the Poor: Teachers and Mobility in Ireland and Irish America” (2004), as well as numerous essays, articles, and reviews. She has given invited lectures in both the Republic and Northern Ireland, and throughout Europe and the United States. She has also appeared on television and radio in the United States, Ireland, and Northern Ireland. She now lives by the sea in Portsmouth. This is Professor Nolan’s second lecture for the Museum