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1798 Collection
Special Collections | Wexford County Library
Tallaght Historic Society Slide Collection
History & Heritage | South Dublin County Library
Standish Barry Papers
History & Heritage | Cork County Library
Verschoyle Papers
Special Collections | Kildare County Library
The Warder Newspaper
History & Heritage | Waterford City Library

Cork gets its name from the marsh on which the city is built.
Cork City Library | Big Houses of Ireland

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Feature: The Folklore of Ireland
With the foundation of The Folklore of Ireland Society (An Cumann le Béaloideas Éireann) in 1927, the idea of the scientific collection, preservation, indexing and publication of the folklore of Ireland , in all its richness, variety and imaginative intensity, gained momentum.