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The English Market in Cork is a historic covered market hall established in 1788. It’s notable as Ireland's oldest purpose-built food market, offering a wide selection of locally sourced produce and goods from Cork and surrounding areas. Primarily used by residents and visitors seeking fresh food di...
Charles Villiers Stanford was an Irish composer who profoundly shaped the late 19th-century English Musical Renaissance by teaching prominent figures like Holst and Vaughan Williams.
Thomas Sheridan was an Irish actor and elocutionist whose 1780 General Dictionary of the English Language marked words with respelled pronunciations.
Niall Ó Dónaill was an Irish lexicographer best known for compiling the *Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla* in 1977, which remains a standard modern Irish-English dictionary.
Tomás de Bhaldraithe was an Irish-language scholar best known for his 1959 English-Irish Dictionary, a benchmark work in modern Irish lexicography.
Charles Villiers Stanford was an Irish composer and organist who heavily influenced the English Musical Renaissance as a professor at the Royal College of Music.
The Emerald Isle is a 1901 Savoy comic opera by Arthur Sullivan, Edward German, and Basil Hood, notable as Sullivan's last stage work.
Irish daily newspaper founded in Cork in 1841 as the Cork Examiner, making it one of Ireland's oldest continuously published papers.
Charles Villiers Stanford's oratorio Eden (1891) for soloists, chorus, and orchestra, depicting the Fall of Man and considered one of his principal choral achievements.
Charles Villiers Stanford's oratorio based on the Old Testament story of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego cast into the fiery furnace, a Victorian-era choral work.
Belfast-based Irish daily founded in 1891, primarily serving the nationalist community in Northern Ireland with broad coverage of Irish affairs.
