Cork City Celebrates 800 Years, Ireland 1985
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- Опубліковано 1 жов 2024
- A look at the People and City of Cork on its 800th birthday.
Cork celebrates eight hundred years since it was granted a charter by Prince John in 1185.
When Oliver Wendell Holmes said the axis of the world runs through every town and village, he could have been thinking of Cork.
Historian Dr Sean Pettit believes the most beautiful thing about Cork is that it is a celebration of people, similar to all other Irish and European cities each has its own distinctive characteristics.
The most beautiful thing about any city is that it is a celebration of the life of people.
Sean Pettit describes Cork people as vivacious and having a strong sense of identity with their city.
They really love this place with its warts and all.
One of the negative images of the people of Cork is that they are clannish. There may be some truth to this but when the barriers are broken and they let you in, they will take you over.
Cork people are an enigma. Beneath the thin veneer of sophisticated nonsense, there’s warmth. They’re countrified and even shy but most of all they’re proud of their roots.
Donal Crosbie, Vice President of the Cork Examiner says everyone has a loyalty to where they come from. He describes Cork as having a continental flavour because of its maritime connections, similar to places like Devon and Cornwall.
Donal’s brother and Chairman of the Cork Examiner, George Crosbie, believes that people from Cork are very loyal to the city.
Performer and entertainer Paddy Comerford describes the difference between Cork and Dublin in terms of a different sense of humour, the dialects, and the moods.
An RTÉ News report broadcast on 7 February 1985. The reporter is Peter McNiff.
My old fella has still has a coke can celebrating the 800 years of Cork
there's nowt wrong with being clannish, me and my family are the same, prefer our own kind.
What Cork was really like in 1985?
30 Apr 1985 - 'Dáil Éireann calls on the Government to undertake an immediate programme of action to combat the appalling unemployment situation in Cork city and county...The latest live register figures show a staggering 25,194 people unemployed in Cork city and county...In 1982 in the city alone there were 12.8 per cent unemployed rising steadily to 17 per cent in 1983, to 21 per cent in 1984 and still rising.'
And now in the 2020s?
In the 2022 Census, Cork County had the lowest long-term unemployment rate in Ireland at 3%. Technically, that's full employment.
Cork contributes 19% of Ireland's GDP. In 2022, the region that includes the Irish counties of Cork, Wexford, Waterford had the highest regional GDP per capita in the EU, at 2.86 times higher than the European average.
194 multinational firms are present in Cork operating across sectors such as pharmaceuticals, technology, cybersecurity, and financial services employing almost 43,000 people.
The father always went on about the unemployment in the 80”s.
But it was bad enough for our generation after the 07 crash, only it wasn’t really felt until 08.
I finished school in 09, right around when construction tanked in the country.
I had landed a carpentry apprenticeship, but it lasted 6 months after my leaving cert, only for work to disappear as the owner folded.
I ended up working in a scrapyard up in church field (rough spot dealing with the travellers). At the time I barely knew a fella with a 40 hour a week job. Stayed in that until 2015.
I was 22, I said feck it, and left for Calgary on a working visa.
Landed when oil had tanked world wide, the alberta economy had tanked, but it had given me the greatest standard of living I ever experienced.
Tried Ireland again in 2018, landed a job in Stryker, only to realise it was a brain dead job, moved back to Calgary in 2019, bought my house and wouldn’t move back to Ireland, even if I was given a house mortgage free. The standard of living over here is exceptional.
Cork can be great again. Keep pressure on politicians. Dereliction is disgraceful & drug abuse due to lack of law is shocking
So sad how much Cork City has lost its character akin to so many towns and cities across this country
The old perception of Corkonians being insular is a bit of misconception that stems from a Dublin viewpoint. Cork is deeply connected with the rest of Munster especially Kerry. It's just that Irish provinces differ quite a bit.
Loved seeing this. ❤ 1985 was an important year for me personally 💕
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Brilliant 🏆
This is fabulous. How far we have since fallen as a nation. Pushed, rather than fallen.