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The museum is currently collating their collections to make it more readily available for anyone researching about Cork.

Please click on the accordions below to find out more details

 

 

Pre-History Cork

Portfolio: The Garryduff Excavation

Portfolio: The Cork Horns

Cork-Horns-Oct-2021-01 

 

 

Medieval Cork

Portfolio: Aspects-of-Medieval-Life-in-Cork.pdf (size 2 MB)

 Screenshot-2021-10-22-at-14.30-copy

 

 

1600-1830

Portfolio: Gunmoney 1689-1691

Book: Committee of Cork Merchants 1778-1792

Pencil-Watercolour-John-Fitzgerald-South-Gate-and-Bridge-from-Elizabeth-Fort 

 

1830-1913

Book: Cobh Famine Relief Committee 1846 Part-01

Book: Cobh Famine Relief Committee 1846 Part-02

 

1777.3295-B4.11-Illustration-Cork-International-Exhibition-Showgrounds-1902-02 

 

1913-1923

 1970.12-D4.7-Postcard-Photo-Burning-of-Cork-Fire-1920     The Burning of Cork

 

1966.2.11-D4.2-Photo-Cork-No.2-Brigade-Flying-Column-Training-Camp-Liscarroll-1921-2     Sinn Fein/Irish Volunteers/IRA Publications

 

1974.20-B6.6-Newspaper-Eire-Ireland-No.1-01   Republican Newspapers

 

01-L1946.62-Sketch-Drawing-With-List-of-Internees-of-Hut-20-Ballykinlar-Camp-County-Down-01-1     Internment and Prison

 

2007.38.439A-D21.15-Photo-Group-Photo-The-Commissiart-of-Cumann-Na-mBan-Conlon-Collection     Cumann Na mBan

 

2007.38.423B-D21.15-Photo-Group-of-Women-Killarney-1921-Cumann-Na-mBan-Conlon-Collection     Conlon Collection

 

02-L1948.51-D1.12-Photo-Cork-Brigade-Fianna-Eireann-Wilton-June-1922-01-1-copy     Na Fianna Eireann

 

2019.20.1-Press-9-Postcard-Tadhg-Barry-Burning-of-Cork-Michael-Lenihan-Collection-1     Tadhg Barry

 

MacCurtain-Family-Photograph-2m-x-80cm     Thomas MacCurtain

 

1954.59-D8.4-Photo-Wedding-of-Terence-MacSwiney-to-Muriel-Murphy-in-Wales-70-x--50-cm-Copy     Terence MacSwiney

 

Poster-Curfew-Order-Fermoy-East-Cork-War-of-Indepedence-1921 

 

 

20th Century Ireland

Book: Cork Public Museum Opening 1945 Catalogue Programme

Book: Programme 'Taispeantas Stairemail'. Museum Display Cork Examiner Offices in 1942.

 Poster-Aer-Lingus-First-Flight-from-Cork-Airport

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