Cork Music Archive

Cork City Libraries have established the Cork Music Archive to give a permanent home to the wealth of music produced by Cork people. Music is woven into virtually every aspect of the life of Cork city and county, and is an unmistakable part of who we are. The collections held in the Archive cover all forms of music: classical, choral, traditional and contemporary.
The aims of the Cork Music Archive are to:

• collect, document, preserve and make available the musical heritage and current musical output of Cork – the city and region
• seek out important items of musical heritage, and promote and support archival recording etc.
• promote awareness and enjoyment of Cork’s music.

Further information is available at the Cork City Libraries website http://www.corkcitylibraries.ie/corkmusicarchive/

Our Friend Ethel Lilian Boole/Voynich by E. Taratuta.  Translated by Séamus Ó Coigligh.  Cork City Libraries, 2008. 

Cork-born writer, musician, and revolutionary, Ethel Lilian Boole, who died in 1960, was the youngest daughter of George Boole, mathematics professor at Queen’s College (now University College), Cork.  Her first novel, The Gadfly, published in 1897 under her Polish husband’s surname Voynich, was immediately popular in America and Britain before millions of copies in translation were sold east of the Iron Curtain.  Séamus Ó Coigligh, retired curator of Cork Public Museum, translated Evgenia Taratuta’s Russian booklet (1957) on the life and work of Ethel Lilian Boole/Voynich.   Coinciding with the translator’s ninety-second birthday in 2008, Cork City Libraries has made Séamus Ó Coigligh’s translation with additional notes available digitally through the library’s online catalogue.  

Images on Library Catalogue

You can now view hundreds of online images, mainly about Cork, by searching our Catalogue. If you want to see images from, for instance, our copies of the Illustrated London News (1843-1885) or from the Irish Builder (1867-84), enter that journal name in the Author field of the Catalogue. Similarly, you can search in the catalogue’s Subject field for ‘Cork pictorial works' or other subject headings to find a wider range of images.

A limited number of these images are also searchable on this Cork Past and Present website with accompanying textual information compiled by Local Studies Librarian Kieran Burke. While a greater number of images can be found by searching the Catalogue, these do not have accompanying textual information as in the Cork Past and Present website.

Our digital images should be useful for school projects, for historians, and for others with an interest in Cork city and surrounding areas. If you would like to contribute images to this catalogue (by loan or donation of images), please contact us at corkpastandpresent@corkcity.ie