Cork Local Interest

Cork City, Ireland's southern capital, is a place of tradition, continuity, change and legacy. It is a place of direction and experiment by people of ambition and determination, experiences and learning, of ingenuity and innovatio…

It's time for a new take on the Cork vs Dublin rivalry. Cork is more kefir cocktails than Tanora these days; Dublin reckons it's like Berlin because it has two intersecting tram lines. This book takes a 21st century look at the tw…

This book covers the history of Neptune Basketball Club from 1947 to the present as told by its longest serving member, and while it refers to games, trophies, and tournaments, it concentrates on the social, cultural and community…

Murder Most Local: Historic Murders of East Cork contains 47 true historical murder stories from East Cork. Some are well known cases that have lived on in folklore, others are long forgotten… From Youghal to Fermoy and Aghada to …

This book tells of the pivotal role played by 'ordinary' Cork women in the War of Independence, 1916-1923. Most of these women did not feature in recorded history, and their importance to Ireland's struggle for independence is onl…

True crime meets local history. Murder Most Local: Historic Murders of North Cork covers over thirty historical murders in the North Cork area. The map from Mitchelstown in the east all the ways to the Kerry border is dotted with …