Organisation: The Cork Examiner

A COMPREHENSIVE SERIES OF ARTICLES ON THIS TOPIC

<p>Tenants being evicted from a house on Hector Vandeleur’s estate in Co Clare in 1888. Irish people are highly conscious of such historic images — but we would do well to also look back just a decade, at the fallout from the banking collapse.</p>

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Mick Clifford: Government may yet regret ignoring the history of evictions in Ireland

Evictions resonate so deeply with Irish people that ending the ban with no alleviating measures borders on recklessness

<p>August 1922: Free State troops make their way along Clontarf St towards Lower Oliver Plunkett St and the city centre. Clontarf St is now bounded by the Clayton Hotel and Deloitte, and the structure atop Clontarf Bridge is long gone. Picture: Irish Examiner Archive</p>

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Irish Civil War: Free State takes over its second city after naval landings and the Battle for Cork

<p>Michael Collins addresses an election meeting. Date unknown, circa 1921. Picture: INM/Getty</p>

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Irish Civil War: Turbulent days in Cork and Kerry followed the killing of Michael Collins

Michael Moynihan: New year and new beginnings as the bells of Shandon ring in 2023

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The day Cork policemen resigned to help fight for the Pope 

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Death of MacSwiney had enormous significance as prisoners hunger strike drew global coverage

Examiner founder takes to Twitter 143 years after his death

For movie fans, 2015 is the year Marty McFly came Back to the Future again, but, thanks to modern technology another time traveller has come from a more distant past — and is tweeting about when he founded The Cork Examiner.

Wed, 21 Jan, 2015

Charting the course

A CHEMIST by training, a shovel engineer by vocation and a manager by desperation.”

Tue, 30 Aug, 2011

Newspapers retain their quality mark

MANY papers were founded by politicians. The Irish Examiner is no exception.

Tue, 30 Aug, 2011