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St Patrick's Street (Irish: Sráid Naomh Pádraig) is the main shopping street of the city of Cork in the south of Ireland. The street was subject to redevelopment in 2004, and has since won two awards as Ireland's best shopping street. [1] St Patrick's Street is colloquially known to most locals as simply 'Patrick's Street', with the 'St ...
Patrick Street, Cork. Photochrom print c. 1890–1900. Cork, located on Ireland's south coast, is the second largest city within the Republic of Ireland after Dublin and the third largest on the island of Ireland after Dublin and Belfast. Cork City is the largest city in the province of Munster. Its history dates back to the sixth century.
It was founded in Cork in 1838 by Theobald Mathew, a Capuchin friar – generally known as Father Mathew. Under his influence, branches the organization spread throughout Ireland, though it was badly disrupted by the Great Irish Famine of 1846 to 1849. Father Mathew also travelled in England and Scotland (1842) and in the United States (1849 to ...
Father Mathew monument in St. Patrick's Street, Cork. The movement with which his name is associated began on 10 April 1838 with the establishment of the "Knights of Father Mathew", which in less than nine months enrolled no fewer than 150,000 names. Over time this became the Catholic Total Abstinence Society.
St Patrick's Street: 1864: John Henry Foley "The Statue" [1] The Echo boy St Patrick's Street: 1991: Barry Moloney [2] Examiner Office St. Patrick's Street: 2009: Eithne Ring & Liam Lavery National Monument Grand Parade, Cork: 1906: D. J. Coakley [3] Berwick Fountain Grand Parade, Cork: 1860: Sir John Benson [4] 'Lest We Forget' War Memorial ...
The parish stretches from Oliver Plunkett Street in the north to St Patrick's Road in the south and from Sharman Crawford Street in the west to Albert Road in the east. [1] When used to refer to the residential area, the parts north of the south channel of the River Lee are usually excluded as being part of the city centre.
Patrick Street is an Irish folk group founded by Kevin Burke (formerly of The Bothy Band) on fiddle, Andy Irvine (Sweeney's Men, Planxty) on mandolin, bouzouki, harmonica and vocals, Jackie Daly on button accordion, and Arty McGlynn (Van Morrison) on guitar.
Cork University Press, Cork 2005, pp. 144–5. Michael V. Conlon, 'Some old Cork charities', in Journal of Cork Historical and Archaeological Society. Cork Historical and Archaeological Society, Cork, 1943; John Crowley, Robert Devoy, Denis Linehan, Patrick O'Flanagan, Atlas of Cork city. Cork University Press, Cork 2005.