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Celebrating 21 Years The Cork Person of the Month and Cork Person of the Year Awards scheme, was established in 1993, and covers Cork City and Cork County. Back then, like today, the media was full of doom and gloom and founder, Manus O’Callaghan, wanted to establish a vehicle to deliver the good news stories and the people behind them. The book, 21 Years of the Cork Person of the Year Awards, was written by Irish Examiner correspondent John Daly and features articles on all of the annual winners and many of the 252 people who were presented with monthly awards throughout the last 21 years. It celebrates all that is good about Cork and its people and showcases the achievements of Cork people throughout all regions and backgrounds. It features entrepreneurs, sports stars, artists and charity workers. People are inspired by people, and hopefully, by honouring achievement and celebrating success, others may be inspired to follow in the footsteps of our local heroes. The award scheme and book celebrates Cork’s greatest asset – our people [ssba] -
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John Jeffries The Cobh Pier Head Shooting and the story of the moon car. On 21st March 1924 a group of men wearing Irish army uniforms pulled up at the main pier in Cobh, Co. Cork. Seated in a yellow Rolls Royce Silver Ghost, they watched around 50 British soldiers disembark from a ferry from Spike Island. Suddenly the men in the Rolls Royce produced machine guns and fired on the British soldiers. One soldier was killed while eighteen others and six civilians were injured. Driving away at speed, the Rolls Royce stopped briefly to fire on a British warship in the harbour. An hour later armed British soldiers returned to Cobh and more shots were fired. There followed one of the biggest manhunts in modern Irish history, making front-page news throughout the world. The Rolls Royce and its occupants seemed to have vanished into thin air. The car was not seen again for 57 years. In his book Death on the Pier, John Jefferies unravels fact from myth surrounding the Pier Head shooting and the amazing story behind the mysteries Rolls Royce known as the Moon Car. -
James Good Muirne, an Irish nurse working in the desert, falls in love with a local warrior. She marries him, and brings him home to an Irish island. After some happy years, they drift apart, and eventually she seeks a decree of nullity in their marriage. A strange sequence of events brings them together eventually, and the story has a happy ending. -
James Good Of the articles which follow, some few remain in my files because I did not succeed in getting them published. The majority were never submitted for publication, while some few are in a kind of no-man’s-land – sent to a publisher and never even acknowledged. An occasional one may have been printed without my knowing it. All in all, writing articles and seeing them in print is a joyous, fulfilling experience. A writer hopes that his joy at seeing himself in print is somehow shared by his readers. With this double purpose in mind, I have put together this collection of pieces written over the years but – as far as I am aware – never appearing in print. -
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Cal McCarthy, Barra O'Donnabhain A History of the Victorian Convict Prison on Spike Island. A comprehensive overview of the lives and times of the notorious Spike Island convict prison. -
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Anne McSweeney Following the success of “The Tips of Her Toes in the Ocean” Anne McSweeney published her second book “Watching The Wild Waves Motion” in much the same vein. Each story can be read in isolation, you can pick and choose where you want to start. “A great read, beautifully done”- Mary E Winn, Ormskirk, Liverpool.
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