Bounce in a club with Pure Cork pizzazz, revel in a festival or kick back to some jazz. Catch an intimate gig in a pub with a fire or watch a horse race with locals that comes down to the wire…
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View allFind a charming old cottage or quiet hotel, in our old merchant city or near the sound of sea swell…
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Thomas Kent (29 August 1865 – 9 May 1916) was an Irish nationalist who was court-martialled under British military law and executed at Collins Barracks, Cork following a gunfight with the Royal Irish Constabulary (RIC) on 9 May 1916, in the immediate aftermath of the Easter Rising.
Here's a piece we wrote for the Evening Echo about Thomas Kent in 2006. Click here
