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Show f puliouUo'jcek CriKi MOST- IRISH CITY IN IRELAND i k, tlilnl city of Irolnntl, n considerable con-siderable part of which wns recently destroyed by fire, bears a very superficial super-ficial resemblance t6 bur own New l'ork In thut Us nuclciiK Is situated on an Island enfolded Jiy two arms of n river where Its waters meet n boy. Tlio comparison sboh becomes n contrast, however, for Cork Is n city of less than SO.00O souls, lins few public pub-lic buildings or thoroughfares of lin-, lin-, portance, and wns built on n low, swampy slto Instead of on tho rocky ribs of Mother Garth. ; The stream that enfolded Cork before be-fore It grew across its watery bar-Triers bar-Triers Is tlio Itlver Leo which rises In -a Httlo lake to the north. From .1 tiny Island In tho lako came the pious hcruilt, St. Fin Darre, who established n monastery on tho Island nt the , mouth of tho river In tho seventh con-i con-i tory, and from this start the. present j city has grown.- Both the 'Catholic 1 nnd Protestant cathedrals of Cork nre I dedicated to this early Irish saint. "" At the head of ono of the finest I harbors In Ireland u land-locked covo I whoso waters nro ns plncld ns those I of a lake Cork has been subject since I Its establishment to attacks by sen I marauders,' Invading Dnncs burned I the city In 621 and again In 1012, I tod after tho. second destruction I founded on tho sue a Danish trading I post. The Irish, again In control of Mneclty, submitted to the English In I 1172; who or mnny years maintained I a precarious foothold. The Irish eventually regained Cork I not by fordo of arms but by "Inflitrn-I "Inflitrn-I tlon," for before n great while the I one-time English post was the most Irish city in Ireland, Its government entirely In tho hauds of tiro people cf Erin. I A tragedy overtook Cork tho year H Cotombus discovered America, and v&j visited most heavily on Its lord Bayor. During that year tho city re- wired and assisted Perkln Wnrbock. pretender t'o the English throne. The H wjor lost his head and tho city Its H darter. Cork's wonderful linrl)or lias given It I mnrltimo Importnnco slnco early to Recognition of this fact Is s&en ' btte title of admiral of the port tertowed on tho lord mayor of Cork 1 ij Edward IV and held by the lords K sujor to tho present day. B Qseenstown, nt tho head of tho outci Urbor, nnd practically u part of Cork, I Is the port of call nnd departuro for mu-Atluntlc liners. This fact has aide Cork a city of sadness to many, for perhaps a million or moro men nd women, in largest part mero boys ul girls forced by economic pressure o emigrate, linvo there bidden good-!7 good-!7 with set faces n.nd streaming eyes the Innd they lovo so well. While there nru practically no points 'Ureal Interest Jn Cork, closo by is ' of tho best known nnd most fro-"ntly fro-"ntly visited spots In nil Ireland. 'li tho ruined toWcr of Illarney ens-. ens-. stronghold of, Cormnc McCarthy, "o, legend has ft, Instructed by an W tag ho had rescued to kiss ono ' tho 3tnnca of tho tqwer the futti- "blarney stono" became Irreslst-v Irreslst-v eloquent. |