Pauline Murphy
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Breaking Your Melt Since 1987.
Cork. Where else like!?
Joined March 2011
Murdered by British forces on this day in 1921: Journalist, Gael, Trade Unionist, Cork Patriot - Tadhg Barry. https://t.co/xYkSfeKttr
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D Company, known as the southside Cork city IRA, operated a bomb making factory at Connolly's Yard, Ballinlough Rd. A good bulk of their 'goods' were used by Tom Barry's men in West Cork.... https://t.co/FXIRbcTSNX
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Years ago in a Cork city school - Teacher hands chalk to a pupil: ''Barry, write the longest sentence you can think of.'' Barry saunters up to the blackboard and writes: IMPRISONMENT FOR LIFE.
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The Adelphi Hotel in Youghal, now known as The Walter Raleigh Hotel. One day an American tourist in the hotel bar asked the lad behind the counter why it was called after Walter Raleigh. The lad replied: "because he used to drink here!"
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HQ of the dreaded K Company: Empress Place, Summerhill North, Cork city - if walls could talk ... https://t.co/rWaha4tYyw
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74 North Main Street, Cork City: During the War of Independence this was the place to go for picking up dispatches and hiding guns. If walls could talk.... https://t.co/9l5Nf5lfz0
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Cork city years ago: The Three Ones Pub, Barrack Street, two men chatting at the bar: 'How's your brother these days, I haven't seen him in a while?' 'He opened a shop in Douglas a while back.' 'Oh that's great news, hows he doing?' 'Six months. He opened it with a crowbar!'
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Some years ago in Cork, a fussy lady shopping for fowl in The English Market: ''How much are you charging for the turkeys?'' ''£10 each ma'am.'' ''Did you raise them yourself?'' ''Of course I did, yesterday they were £5!'''
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Years ago, a high tide flooded the streets of Cork while Paddy was visiting his friend Finbarr on South Terrace. Finbarr looked the window and said to Paddy: "The floods are very bad, you'd better stay the night." "Oh thanks very much Finbarr, I'll pop home and fetch me pjamas."
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Years ago during a funeral in St Patrick's Church on the Lower Glanmire Road, a priest was swinging the thurible with burning incense around the coffin. The silence of the solemn moment was broken by a young child seated down the back - ''FATHER, YOUR HANDBAG IS ON FIRE!!!''
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