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Ireland uses Irish Standard Time (IST, UTC+01:00; Irish: Am Caighdeánach Éireannach) in the summer months and Greenwich Mean Time (UTC+00:00; Irish: Meán-Am Greenwich) in the winter period. [1] Roughly two-thirds of the Republic is located west of the 7.5°W meridian. Thus the local mean time in most of Ireland is closer to UTC-01:00 time ...
Cobh (/ ˈ k oʊ v / KOHV, Irish: An Cóbh), known from 1849 until 1920 as Queenstown, is a seaport town on the south coast of County Cork, Ireland. With a population of 14,418 inhabitants at the 2022 census, [2] Cobh is on the south side of Great Island in Cork Harbour and home to Ireland's only dedicated cruise terminal. Tourism in the area ...
Hurling has a strong identity with city and county – with Cork winning 30 All-Ireland Championships. Gaelic football is also popular, and Cork has won 7 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship titles. Cork is the only county that has won both championships at least 7 times and the only one that has won both in the 21st century.
Map of West Cork. West Cork (Irish: Iarthar Chorcaí) [1] is a tourist region and municipal district in County Cork, Ireland.As a municipal district, West Cork falls within the administrative area of Cork County Council, [2] and includes the towns of Bantry, Castletownbere, Clonakilty, Dunmanway, Schull and Skibbereen, and the 'key villages' of Baltimore, Ballydehob, Courtmacsherry ...
The Cork people supported Warbeck because he was Flemish and not English; Cork was the only county in Ireland to join the fight. The mayor of Cork and several important citizens went with Warbeck to England, but when the rebellion collapsed they were all captured and executed. Cork's nickname of the 'rebel county' (and Cork city's of the 'rebel ...
East Cork lies in south-west Ireland, in Ireland's largest county, County Cork. The term "East Cork" is used in tourism, [1] [2] sporting [3] and other contexts, and is the name given to one of eight municipal districts of Cork County Council. [4] East Cork contains one of the world's largest natural harbours, Cork Harbour.
The Lord Mayor of Cork gained the title in 1900, to mark Queen Victoria's visit to Ireland; [70] the style "Right Honourable" has never applied. Armagh gained a lord mayor in 2012 for the Diamond Jubilee of Elizabeth II. [71] The title of Right Honourable in the cities of Cork and Dublin was abolished by the Local Government Act 2001. [72]
Ireland's four professional rugby teams in the United Rugby Championship play under the names of the provinces. The Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) has separate provincial councils and its county teams contest provincial championships. [27] Six of the nine Ulster counties form modern-day Northern Ireland, which is part of the United Kingdom.