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| | Intro Cork, Ireland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04) |
 | | Cork is the second largest city in the Republic of Ireland, with 150,000 residents and is situated on the south coast 160 miles from Dublin. |
 | | Cork was granted its first charter by Henry II of England in 1172 and over the centuries has been Royalist, Jacobite, Fenian, and played a prominent role in the War of Independence 1919-21.Cork's accessibility makes it an ideal location to live and study. |
 | | University College Cork, founded in 1845, became part of the Queen's University in Ireland in 1850 (along with Galway and Belfast), and, in 1908, one of the three constituent colleges (Dublin, Cork and Galway) of the National University of Ireland. |
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