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<p>New Cork Corporation housing at Gurranabraher, Cork, in March 1934.</p>

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Archives: Why should building be so much dearer in Cork than elsewhere?

One hundred years ago, the Cork Examiner published a series of opinion pieces by a contributor known as 'Periscope', highlighting a range of social and political issues, some of which are as relevant today as they were back then

A family of survivors from the Lusitania in Cobh in 1915

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Thousands of old Irish photos transformed through restoring and colourising

A passion for heritage and the discovery of some nifty new software has resulted in an Irish architect putting colour on thousands of old photographs, writes Marjorie Brennan

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Colm O'Regan: You wouldn’t think much happened in Ireland before Italia 90 but they did some things right

It’s calming to be doing something. I’m fretting mad about work drying up and needing to “make use of the time” given to us by the Shutdown, writes Colm O'Regan

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'Here was a first-hand account, almost like reading a diary of the time' - Cork Zine Archive on display at UCC

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State involvement in Magdalene Laundries illustrated in new online archive

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Take a nostalgic trip down memory lane with Irish adverts from the 60s, 70s and 80s

RTÉ finances still stretched: Same old story

Some of the 30-year-old archive material published today shows how very little has changed and how very much has changed.

Fri, 30 Dec, 2016

He challenged me to a duel: Vintage Vincent Browne is absolute gold

'There was an incident … in which we came to blows. [He] challenged me to a duel in the Phoenix Park.'

Wed, 12 Aug, 2015

Latest phase of archive project provides real human insight into 1950's Ireland

For generations the Irish Examiner has recorded the major events in the life of our nation, tracking its triumphs and disasters since the newspaper was first launched in 1841.

Tue, 07 Apr, 2015

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