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City of Destination
Cork city is going to be develop as for good reason as kind of Dublin south. It's far smaller than the capital but Cork is a busy, attractive, artsy place that combines the conveniences of a city with an appreciation for rural life. For travelers, it offers plenty to see and do, and has the added attraction of a burgeoning restaurant scene that has been making headlines around Ireland. The city was founded by St. Finbarr in the 6th century, when he built a monastery on a swampy estuary of the River Lee. He gave the place the rather generic Gaelic name of Corcaigh, which means "marsh." Over the next 600 years, the little piece of swamp would ultimately become the crown in the Kingdom of South Munster, but by the end of the 12th century, the English had asserted what they saw as their rightful ownership of the region.The city earned its nickname, "Rebel Cork," because it was a center of the 19th-century Fenian movement, and also played an active part in Ireland's 20th-century battle for independence. The fighting here was long and ugly. Thomas MacCurtain, Cork's mayor, was killed by British forces in 1920. His successor, Terence MacSwiney, died in a London prison after a hunger strike lasting 75 days.Much of the city center, including the library, the City Hall, and most of the buildings on St. Patrick's Street were burned to the ground during the British occupation and the subsequent brutal Civil War of the 1920s.It was not until the last decades of the 20th century that Cork began to come into its own, and to find its feet as a university town with strong connections to Europe, and a kind of gentle sophistication.
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