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County Cork Ireland GenWeb Project - A resource site for anyone with Cork and Irish ancestors. Census and other on-line information provided.
Cork's Pink Pages - Regional links and information for Cork.
Meitheal Mara - Information and history about the ancient Irish skin boats known as Currachs or curachhs.
Cork Society for the Prevention Of Cruelty to Animals - Society which aims to prevent cruelty throughout the County of Cork and to educate everyone about animal care.
Rigpa Ireland - Details of Buddhist facilities.
Buddhism in Cork - Buddhist activities particularly focussed on Kagyu and other "Tibetan" traditions.
Cork Rape Crisis Centre - Information about the Centre's services, training, projects and resources; includes how to help and a FAQ.
County Cork CMC Record Project - A collection of property, baptism, marraige, death and cemetery records for those researching Cork ancestry.
The Irish Immigrant Support Centre - Cork-based non-Governmental organisation which seeks to respond to the needs of the growing number of immigrants in the Munster area.
Conna Community Council - Substantial details of the area, the Council, churches, sport and leisure options and events.
West Cork Garden Trail - Offering details on the annual event to view the beautiful and diverse gardens of West Cork.
Grace Christian Fellowship - Non-denominational church, outlines its beliefs and activities, with contact information and directions.
Cork's War - Information on Cork' s contribution to the War of Independence.
Carriganass Castle - A resource for locals, members of the clan O'Sullivan Bere and tourists interested in the Castle and West Cork area.
Cork 2005 - Culture capital of europe - 2005. Advertising, programs and further information.
Ciaran Lynch - Local Labour Party candidate in Cork South Central Ward.
Castlelyons Parish - Gives the history, clubs, sights, organisations and news in Castlelyons Parish. Includes some photographs.
The O'Connell's of Ballingulley - Family tree of the O'Connell family, also incorporating the Lucey's of Ballingeary and the Lynch family from Togher.
Cork Circuit - Includes service times, weekly activities and calendar for Cork [Ardfallen], Killarney, Kinsale and Youghal Methodist Churches.
The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the west. -- Unknown history student She felt in italics and thought in capitals. -- Henry James "When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong, they taught me different was wro Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) Society and Culture "It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality." (Francois Sagan) And gain is gain, however small. -- Robert Browning It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune. -- Woody Allen Society and Culture There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher. -- Flannery O'Connor I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean. -- G. K. Chesterton "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back. -- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good questions. -- Woody Allen Society and Culture "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) "Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams) The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true. -- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion Society and Culture I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not. -- Fran Lebowitz The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald "Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true. -- Anon. Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure. -- George E. Woodberry Society and Culture I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television. -- Gore Vidal There is no sincerer love than the love of food. -- George Bernard Shaw I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch. -- Gilda Radner Society and Culture Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim. -- George Santayana "The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Behind every great fortune there is a crime. - Honore de Balzac Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said. -- George Santayana Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you. -- Aldous Huxley Society and Culture Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: I would not live forever, because we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live forever, "Crime like death is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims." (Charles Dickens, 1812-70, Oliver Twist) Beginning in February 1976 your assistance benefits will be discontinued ... Reason: it has been reported to our office that you expired on January 1, 1976. -- excerpt from a letter, Illinois Depart Society and Culture Black holes are where God divided by zero. - Steven Wright "Have love for your friend up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your enemy some day; and hate your enemy up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your friend some day." (Ali bin "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge "Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) Society and Culture Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences. -- Isadora Duncan Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Borge There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you. -- Peter De Vries Society and Culture The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't. -- Jules Renard Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd "In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule. -- Samuel Butler Society and Culture "Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought. -- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived in this century. I didn't live in this century. -- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic Society and Culture LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the influences under which he incurred the disorder... It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the physician A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer. -- Dean Acheson When women go wrong, men go right after them. -- Mae West The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity. -- Helen Hayes Imagination is the highest kite one can fly. -- Lauren Bacall Society and Culture I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world. -- Albert Einstein Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you. -- Oscar Wilde Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error that provoked it. -- Alvin Toffler Society and Culture The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be feasible. - A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock. -- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers Live out of your imagination, not your history. -- Stephen Covey Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn themselves to a life of vinegar. -- Countess of Blessington The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it. -- John Stuart Mill Society and Culture "If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair." (Samuel Johnson) "In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." (Eric Hoffer) When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree. -- William Blake Society and Culture Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great. -- William Shakespeare, Henry IV Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness. -- Erica Jong To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture. -- Anatole France It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit. -- Harry Truman My wife ran off with my best friend last week. I miss him! Society and Culture My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a philosopher. - Socrates See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails? -- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo "If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, Society and Culture You cannot create experience. You must undergo it. -- Albert Camus I never think of the future - it comes soon enough. -- Albert Einstein He that would have the fruit must climb the tree. -- Thomas Fuller, M.D. Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage. -- Benjamin Franklin Society and Culture Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever. -- Napoleon Bonaparte And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children. -- Miriam Robbins Society and Culture "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him. -- Cher Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer. -- Mark Twain The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist. -- Aaron Machado I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me. -- Dick Martin Society and Culture Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint. -- Robert Browning Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea. -- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon compounds that crawl. -- Mike Adams Society and Culture
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