Resource Pack 10: 1918 Conscription
5 Cork City & County Archives: Through War and Rebellion: Cork 1912-1918
Further research and sources
CORK CITY AND COUNTY ARCHIVES CATALOGUE
The item is from a letterbook in collection BG69 Cork Board of Guardians: http://catalogue.corkarchives.ie/Details/archive/110003765
Collection U97 John Brown RIC contains vivid reports of anti-conscription riots in Cork in 1917: http://catalogue.corkarchives.ie/Details/archive/110000544
Cork Corporation and Cork County Council both passed motions protesting against conscription: http://catalogue.corkarchives.ie/Details/archive/110004144 http://catalogue.corkarchives.ie/Details/archive/110004106 Republicans were involved in, and kept a close eye on, the conscription controversy. It is referred to, eg, in a prison letter of Terence MacSwiney: http://catalogue.corkarchives.ie/Details/archive/110004226
CORK CITY AND COUNTY ARCHIVES WEBSITE
Descriptive lists for all surviving Board of Guardian records for Co Cork are on the website:
http://www.corkarchives.ie/collections/guidetocollections/localgovernmentandhealtharchives/cork poorlawunionsboardsofguardians/
Descriptive list for U97 which contains RIC Officer Brown’s reports on anti-conscription riots:
http://www.corkarchives.ie/media/U97web.pdf
ONLINE AND ELSEWHERE
Cork Heritage St. Nicholas Church
http://corkheritage.ie/?page_id=313
Cllr. Kieran McCarthy’s website has a large number of items about the history of the city includes a short piece about St. Nicholas Church.
RTE Century Ireland ‘Protestant Sisters accused of proselytising in Cork workhouse’
http://www.rte.ie/centuryireland/blog/protestant-sisters-accused-of-proselytising-in-cork- workhouse
Canon Nicholson was the Church of Ireland Chaplin of the workhouse for more than thirty years and was not unused to controversy as this piece shows.
Powered by FlippingBook