The castle, together with the lands of Carrigaline and Ballinrea, was then granted by the queen to Sir Anthony St. Leger, who demised them to Stephen Golding, from whom they were purchased by Sir Richard Boyle, afterwards Earl of Cork, and from him descended to the present proprietor, the Earl of Shannon.

The castle was sold and changed hands a number of times before being purchased in the early 1700s by Sir James St. John Jefferyes, then Governor of Cork City.

Some sources, notably John Cork ( the author of a number of books about Bond's film history, and a producer of many documentaries created for the films ' Special Edition DVD releases ), claim that Broccoli purchased this 50 % stake of Danjaq back from UA in the mid-1980s.

The Earl of Cork also purchased Annery House near Bideford in 1640 for £ 5000.

During the early part of May 1853, a countryman ploughing in the neighbourhood turned up a large quantity of silver coins, amounting to more than forty-six ounces in weight, which were purchased by a silversmith in Cork.

Fans highlight the continuity of Cork City FC during this period as the former holding company Cork City Investments Fc Ltd was still in existence during its liquidation period when the name and intellectual property were purchased, and the underage teams continued to exist under the name while owned and funded by the fans.

Born in Cork, Ireland, Donovan was an avid collector of natural history specimens purchased mainly at auctions of specimens from voyages of exploration.

* In 1870 the small City of Ragusa ( Dubrovnik ) became the first small Lifeboat to cross the Atlantic from Cork to Boston with two men crew, John Charles Buckley and Nikola Primorac ( di Costa ), only.

According to a report in the Cork Examiner, the Continuity IRA's first chief of staff was Dáithí Ó Conaill, who also served as the first chairman of RSF from 1986 to 1987.

Similar to the cities of Cork, Limerick, Galway, and Waterford — Dublin is administered separately from its respective County with its own City Council.

The first immigrant to pass through Ellis Island was Annie Moore, a 15-year-old girl from Cork, Ireland, who arrived on the ship Nevada on January 1, 1892.

In the south, around 1, 200 Volunteers mustered in Cork, under Tomás Mac Curtain on the Sunday, but they dispersed after receiving nine contradictory orders by dispatch from the Volunteer leadership in Dublin.

* Neeson, Eoin, Myths from Easter 1916, Aubane Historical Society, Cork, 2007, ISBN 978-1-903497-34-0

His father, William Ford ( 1826 – 1905 ), was born in County Cork, Ireland, of a family originally from western England, who were among migrants to Ireland as the English created plantations.

Several families from Bere island, County Cork were encouraged to send emigrants to Argentina by an islander who had been successful there in the 1880s.

It is very similar to the language heard in the southeast of Ireland centuries ago, due to mass emigration from the counties Tipperary, Waterford, Wexford, County Kerry and Cork.

Some of the Irish counties from which these people arrived were County Kerry ( Dingle Peninsula ), County Cork, and County Roscommon, along with others.

Both the Cape Colony and the Colony of Natal had Irish prime ministers: Sir Thomas Upington, " The Afrikaner from Cork "; and Sir Albert Hime, from Kilcoole in County Wicklow.

In 1823, John Ingram brought out 146 Irish from Cork.

Ferry connections between Britain and Ireland via the Irish Sea include the routes from Fishguard and Pembroke to Rosslare, Holyhead to Dún Laoghaire, Stranraer to Belfast and Larne, and Cairnryan to Larne ; the Swansea to Cork route has closed.

In addition, there are ferries from Rosslare and Cork to France.

Ireland's national airline, Aer Lingus, provides air services from Belfast International, Cork, Dublin and Shannon to Europe, North Africa and North America.

Areas of the cities of Belfast, Cork, Dublin, Limerick, Derry and Waterford were carved from their surrounding counties to become county boroughs in their own right and given powers equivalent to those of administrative counties.

* Nemo Rangers GAA, a Football and Hurling from Cork, Ireland

Next to that, the release also contains a bonus disc of footage from the band's personal archive including 1980s footage from Glastonbury, Rome, Cork, Rotterdam and Toronto.

According to an 1892 letter, Casement believed that she was descended from the Catholic Jephson family of Mallow, County Cork.

* March 24 – Aer Lingus Flight 712 crashed en route from Cork to London near Tuskar Rock, Wexford, killing 61 passengers and crew.

The legendary Irish Rover sets sail from the Cove of Cork, Ireland for New York City.

* March 31 – The paddle steamer, bound from Cork to London, sinks in the English Channel with the loss of all 250 on board.

* April 4 – April 22 – The paddle steamer SS Sirius ( 1837 ) makes the Transatlantic Crossing to New York from Cork, Ireland, in eighteen days, though not using steam continuously.

* 1920 – After 74 days on Hunger Strike in Brixton Prison, England, the Sinn Féin Lord Mayor of Cork, Terence MacSwiney died.

Richard Boyle, 1st Earl of Cork ( 13 October 1566 – 15 September 1643 ), also known as the Great Earl of Cork, was Lord Treasurer of the Kingdom of Ireland.

He ascended to the Irish Peerage as Lord Boyle, Baron of Youghal, 6 September 1616, and was created Earl of Cork and Viscount Dungarvan, 26 October 1620.

Archbishop William Laud delighted in Wentworth's attacks on Boyle and wrote: " No physic better than a vomit if it be given in time, and therefore you have taken a very judicious course to administer one so early to my Lord of Cork.

* Richard Boyle, 2nd Earl of Cork and 1st Earl of Burlington ( 1612 – 1698 ), Lord High Treasurer of Ireland ( 1660 – 1695 ).

There is also a Lord Mayor of Cork, a title granted in 1900 when Cork was still part of the United Kingdom.

Dublin, Cork & Belfast each have a Lord Mayor, which today, like in England, fulfil mainly ceremonial roles.

He had already been created Lord Boyle, Baron of Youghal, in the County of Cork, in 1616, and was made Viscount of Dungarvan, in the County of Waterford, at the same time he was given the earldom.

Lord Cork was succeeded by his second son, another Richard Boyle, the second Earl ; his eldest son died young.

Lord Cork later served as Lord High Treasurer of Ireland and as Lord Lieutenant of the West Riding of Yorkshire.

Lord Cork was succeeded by his grandson, the third Earl, the son of Viscount Dungarvan.

Lord Burlington was succeeded in the earldom of Cork and the other remaining titles by his third cousin John Boyle, 5th Earl of Orrery, who became the fifth Earl of Cork as well ( he was descended from the third son of the first Earl of Cork, and had also inherited the titles of Baron Broghill and Baron Boyle of Marston in the Peerage of the United Kingdom, thus a seat in the British House of Lords until 1999 ( see the Earl of Orrery for earlier history of this branch of the family ).

Lord Cork was a Liberal politician and served as Master of the Buckhounds and as Master of the Horse under Lord Russell, William Ewart Gladstone and Lord Rosebery.

Lord Cork was an Admiral of the Fleet and notably commanded the combined expedition for the capture of Narvik in 1940.

After Knox's death in 1873 the paper was sold to the widow of Sir John Arnott, MP, a former Lord Mayor of Cork and owner of Arnotts, one of Dublin's major Department stores.

* Richard Boyle, 1st Earl of Cork, Lord High Treasurer of Ireland, father of scientist Robert Boyle.