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Cork Examiner presses smashed by Anti-Treaty forces before Free State forces arrived in Cork, 9–10 August 1922. The paper was founded by John Francis Maguire under the title The Cork Examiner in 1841 in support of the Catholic Emancipation and tenant rights work of Daniel O'Connell. [3]
Declan Kelly (born 1968) is an Irish-American business executive, entrepreneur, and philanthropist. He is the founder, Chairman and CEO of The Consello Group, a specialized investing and financial services platform.
Peter Berresford Ellis was born in Coventry.His father, Alan John Ellis (1898-1971), was a Cork-born journalist who started his career with The Cork Examiner. [1] [2] According to Ellis, the Ellis family (originally "Elys") can be traced in the area from 1288; his branch were stonecutters in Cork City from the early 1800s.
Cork is home to one of Ireland's main national newspapers, the Irish Examiner (formerly the Cork Examiner). Its ''sister paper'', The Echo (formerly the Evening Echo), was for decades connected to the "Echo boys", who were poor and often homeless children who sold the newspaper.
Born in Cork on 30 April 1931, Ted Crosbie (as he was known) was a great-grandson of Thomas Crosbie, one of Cork's best-known businessmen who became sole proprietor of The Cork Examiner in 1872. He was educated at Christian Brothers College, Cork and later received a BSc from University College Cork in 1952. [1]
In 1889 he became the editor of the newspaper, and in 1899, after the death of his father Thomas, he became chairman of Thomas Crosbie & Co. Ltd, which owned the Cork Examiner. [2] In 1909 he unsuccessfully contested a by-election in the Cork City constituency as an Irish Parliamentary Party candidate, receiving 43% of the vote. [2]
Echo Boy statue, Cork City Echo seller with distinctive cry. The Evening Echo was first published in 1892. [9] It was launched as an evening paper by Thomas Crosbie, then proprietor of the Cork Examiner. Crosbie had himself joined the Examiner in 1841, taking over as editor—and later owner—after the death of founder John Francis Maguire in ...
Cork is the largest county in Ireland by land area, and the largest of Munster's six counties by population and area. At the latest census in 2022, the population of the entire county stood at 584,156. Cork is the second-most populous county in the State, and the third-most populous county on the island of Ireland.