"... Where the boys are all called Paddy and the girls called Molly Dear
Sure we'd wrap the green flag round them if we had old Ireland here...."-- "If We Only Had Old Ireland Over Here" lyrics, by Foster & Allen
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(In Cork County, Ireland) Contae Chorcaí (County Cork) is the largest and the southernmost county of Ireland. Found in the province of Munster, it is named after the city of Cork, Ireland's second city. Featured here is the town of Cobh, built onto the slope of Great Island in Cork Harbor just 15 miles (~23 km) from Cork City. St Colman's Cathedral stands at the top of the hill overlooking the brightly colored buildings of Cobh and the dockside of the most important port of emigration in the country. The port was called Queenstown (renamed following a visit from Queen Victoria in 1849) until it reverted back to its Irish name in 1922. Cobh's long maritime history includes the world's first yacht club, the Royal Cork Yacht Club established in 1720; and, the first steamship to sail across the Atlantic, the Sirius, which sailed from Cobh in 1838. Cobh was the last port of call for the Titanic on her tragic maiden voyage and Cobh was where survivors of the Lusitania were brought after that ship was torpedoed by German U-Boats off the Old Head of Kinsale in 1915.
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