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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.
Roches Stores was founded in Cork in 1901 by William Roche, the son of a farmer from north County Cork, who had worked in Cash's in Cork city and for a time in London. The business began life as a small furniture shop in a former sawmill on Merchant Street in Cork. Over the following twelve years, Roche grew the business to include womenswear ...
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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.
On 23 November 1920, a non-uniformed "Black and Tan" threw a grenade into a group of IRA volunteers who had just left a brigade meeting on St Patrick's Street, Cork's main street. Three IRA volunteers of the 1st Cork Brigade were killed: Paddy Trahey, Patrick Donohue and Seamus Mehigan. [10] [11] The New York Times reported that sixteen people ...
Patrick Street from Daunts Square Map of Cork City Electric Tramways. The Cork Electric Tramways and Lighting Company was a subsidiary of British Thomson-Houston, a major electrical contracting company. [2] The contractor for the permanent way was William Martin Murphy, who later became chairman of the company.
There is a plaque on St Patrick's Bridge in Cork that commemorates its opening by Arnott on 12 December 1861. In 1896, he bought the Duke of Devonshire 's Irish estate in County Cork for about £250,000, [ 2 ] and turned it onto a 32,000 acre stud farm, both for his own interest in horse racing, and to improve the livestock of local farmers.