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Bandon (Droichead na Bandan in Irish) is a town in County Cork, Republic of Ireland. With a population of 5,161 as of census 2002, Bandon lies on the River Bandon between two hills. The name in Irish means "Bridge of the Bandon", a reference to the origin of the town as a crossing-point on the river. In 2004 Bandon celebrated its quatercentenary. Bandon is sometimes called the "Gateway to West Cork". Bullet for locations in Ireland, displays location and not area. ...
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For much of its history, the island of Ireland was divided into 32 counties (Irish language contae or condae, pronounced IPA: ). Two historical counties, County Desmond and County Coleraine, no longer exist, while several county names have changed. ...
Statistics Province: Munster County Town: Cork Code: C (CK proposed) Area: 7,457 km² Population (2006) 480,909 (including City of Cork); 361,766 (without Cork City) Website: www. ...
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Statistics Province: Munster County Town: Cork Code: C (CK proposed) Area: 7,457 km² Population (2006) 480,909 (including City of Cork); 361,766 (without Cork City) Website: www. ...
The River Bandon is a river in County Cork in the Republic of Ireland. ...
Year 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
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West Cork (Irish: Iarthar ChorcaÃ) in south-west Ireland, lies in Irelands largest county, County Cork. ...
History
Bandon was founded as a plantation town in the early 1600s by Phane Beecher. Originally it was inhabitated solely by Protestants. Buildings sprang up on both sides of the river and over time a series of bridges have linked the two settlements. Sir John Moore later leader of the British Army who was killed in the Peninsular War at Corunna Spain in 1809, was governor of the town in 1798. Major General Arthur Ernest Percival was commander of the British garrison in Bandon in 1920-21 during the Irish War of Independence. He was subsequently the commanding officer of the British troops who surrendered Singapore to the Japanese forces in 1941. In 1945 he was invited by Douglas MacArthur to witness the surrender of Japanese forces in Tokyo in 1945 which ended the Second World War. Irish army leader Michael Collins was killed in an ambush at Béal na mBláth, about 6 miles outside Bandon. Protestantism is a general grouping of denominations within Christianity. ...
Sir John Moore (November 13, 1761 - January 16, 1809) was a British soldier and General. ...
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Corunna is the English name of province and town in Spain, nowadays more frequently known by its Galician name A Coruña or its Spanish name La Coruña. ...
Lieutenant-General Arthur Ernest Percival, CB, DSO and Bar, OBE, MC, OStJ, DL (December 26, 1887 - January 31, 1966) was a British Army officer and World War I hero. ...
Combatants Irish Republic United Kingdom Commanders Michael Collins Richard Mulcahy Cathal Brugha Important local IRA leaders Henry Hugh Tudor Strength Irish Republican Army c. ...
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Michael John (Mick) Collins (Irish: ; 16 October 1890 – 22 August 1922) was an Irish revolutionary leader, Minister for Finance in the Irish Republic, Director of Intelligence for the IRA, and member of the Irish delegation during the Anglo-Irish Treaty negotiations, both as Chairman of the Provisional Government and Commander...
The Cross on the bend in the road commemorating where Michael Collins, leader of the Irish Republican Army, was killed in the autumn of 1922. ...
Check out the history section of the www.bandon.ie website for more information on the interesting history of Bandon
Decline of Protestant population During the Irish War of Independence, Bandon’s Protestant population, which was largely unionist, suffered from IRA intimidation and attacks. Between 1911 and 1926 the Protestant population of Bandon dropped by 4.5% [sources: 1911 Census of Ireland; 1926 Census of Saorstat Eireann]. Combatants Irish Republic United Kingdom Commanders Michael Collins Richard Mulcahy Cathal Brugha Important local IRA leaders Henry Hugh Tudor Strength Irish Republican Army c. ...
Protestantism is a general grouping of denominations within Christianity. ...
The word Unionist, simply meaning one espousing a union, has a number of connotations, depending on context: Unionists are people in Ireland, England, Scotland and Wales who were historically in favour of uniting their nations into a United Kingdom, or who in modern times wish their nations to remain part...
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During January-March 1921, the IRA in Cork engaged in a serious of violent attacks on the Protestant community, and during this period at least five Protestants were murdered in Bandon by the IRA: Thomas Bradfield, James Coffery, Jimmy Coffey, Alfred Cotter, Donovan (Christian name unknown) (source: Southern Irish Loyalist Relief Association papers). On 29th June, the Protestant social hall in Bandon was burned to the ground (source: Liam Deasy: “Towards Ireland Free”). Year 1921 (MCMXXI) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar). ...
However, Bandon still retains a sizeable and active Protestant community.
During the seventies Bandon was plagued by loitering gangs of disaffected youths unable to find gainful employment either through (A) the dire economic straights the country then found itself in, (B) a lack of a desire to work, or perhaps (C) the seeming absence of any semblance of the requisite intellect. For whatever reason, these hapless figures found themselves resorting to mindless random acts of vandalism / picking fights for their diversion. Their dress code was relatively uniform: battered jeans, doc marten boots and either a battered denim jacket and /or a German ex-army hooded jacket known as a parka. Such attire was then variously augmented by cheap black woolly hats and/or PLO scarves [as worn by Yassar Arafat on his head but around the neck by Bandonians]. Whatever the choice of attire, very large rock band back-patches stitched to the back of their jackets were a staple. These were typically any one of three major bands: Queen, AC/DC or Iron Maiden. Thus attired, in dull weather these gangs would menacingly walk or loiter around the town, often with contorted expressions on their faces to reflect their mood. When the weather was fine they chose to sit on the towns’ main bridge in large numbers to laugh and jeer at the working population. For their own [warped] sense of amusement, these miscreant brutes would often accuse random strangers of being gay. Then posing as judge, jury and executioners, would proceed to give the hapless victim a good sound thrashing. When after many years of such mindless conduct, Freddie Mercury [of the band Queen] announced that he was in fact both Gay and H.I.V.- Positive these homophobes finally felt like the fools they really were. Overnight their jackets replete with Queen back patches were discarded as the crushing realisation slowly hit home that their erstwhile hero, Freddie Mercury, [far from the macho-tough guy as had previously been conceived], was in fact impossibly camp. This event occasioned Bandons gangs to be suddenly thrown into disarray: since Mercury had been an iconic figure among those who had for years brutally enforced a homophobic doctrine in the town, news of his orientation caused much navel gazing and reappraisal. No amount of Freddie Mercury prancing about in leotards or women’s dresses in Queen music videos it would seem, could have induced ‘the penny to drop’ among his Bandonian following. Thus devastated and humiliated by this crushing news, no further mention was made of Queen. Furthermore,no more random strangers were accused of being gay by these same gangs of homophobic-former-Queen-fans who had for so long adored one of pops most famous Gaylords. In the tragedy that was the death of Freddie Mercury, the irony of the situation for these “hard men” of Bandon was not lost on those who had feared them. They were at long last [in private at least], able to laugh long and heartily at the farcical nature of the pitiful situation. Poetic justices had been served at last.
Festival - Bandon Summer Fest is a family orientated festival run by a volunteer committee held over the August Bank Holiday weekend.[1]
- The Bandon Music Festival takes place every June Bank Holiday weekend. In 2007 acts include Director and Mary Black.
Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era in the 21st Century. ...
Twin city Bandon has a twin city agreement with Bandon, Oregon in the US. That city was founded in 1873 by Lord George Bennet, a native of the Irish Bandon who named the American one after it, and who is known espcially for having introduced gorse into the US ecology with some disastrous results. The term Twin city or twin town may be applied to one of the following notions. ...
Bandon (IPA: ) is a city in Coos County, Oregon, United States, on the south side of the mouth of the Coquille River. ...
1873 (MDCCCLXXIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ...
Species Ulex argenteus Ulex boivinii Ulex borgiae Ulex cantabricus Ulex densus Ulex europaeus - Common Gorse Ulex gallii - Dwarf Furze or Furse Ulex genistoides Ulex micranthus Ulex minor - Dwarf Gorse Ulex parviflorus Ref: ILDIS Version 6. ...
Economy The one time beef industry centre for the southern part of Ireland.
Transport & communications This article is about the city in the Republic of Ireland. ...
A National Secondary Route is a category of road in the Republic of Ireland. ...
A directional road sign in the Republic of Ireland on an other road (not a national road) at Portlaoise, County Laois, including patches for national roads and advance warning of bridge height restrictions. ...
Cork Airport (IATA: ORK, ICAO: EICK) or Aerfort Chorcaà in Irish. ...
People Notable local figures (most of whom have emigrated) include : - Jeremiah Holland, a life-long resident, anthropologist, biologist and bicyclist. Jeremiah remains an active community member.
- Comedian/ TV presenter Graham Norton, who was raised in Bandon.
- Sir George Strickland Kingston, who emigrated to Australia and became a prominent civil engineer, architect and politician.
- Author Margaret Wolfe (Hamilton) Hungerford, who wrote numerous Victorian era novels and was the originator of the phrase "beauty is in the eye of the beholder", died in Bandon of typhoid fever on 24 Jan 1897.
- Andre Jute, noted self-publicist, vacuum tube hi-fi designer, liar, poseur, charlatan, cyclist, music collector and critic, author, economist, psychologist, soldier and advisor to statesmen worldwide has made his home in the vicinity for many years.
Dr Claire O'Leary is the first Irish woman to scale Mount Everest. Brian Crowley MEP is a native of Bandon. Cornelius and James O'Sullivan, two brothers who contribute hugely to the chemistry side of brewing (alchemy) were born in Bandon. George Bennett, the author of the History of Bandon was born in Bandon. He went to Oregon, USA to establish a new town also called Bandon. Aoife Dineen, Nudist Campaigner as described on The Sunday Times Edition 7-Oct-2007 Anthropology (from Greek: ἀνθÏωπος, anthropos, human being; and λόγος, logos, knowledge) is the study of humanity. ...
Biology studies the variety of life (clockwise from top-left) E. coli, tree fern, gazelle, Goliath beetle Biology (from Greek: βίος, bio, life; and λόγος, logos, knowledge), also referred to as the biological sciences, is the study of living organisms utilizing the scientific method. ...
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Photographer Unknown George Strickland Kingston (born August 1807 in Bandon, County Cork, Ireland, died 1880 at sea) arrived in South Australia on the Cygnet in 1836. ...
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Queen Victoria (shown here on the morning of her accession to the Throne, 20 June 1837) gave her name to the historic era The Victorian era of the United Kingdom marked the height of the British Industrial Revolution and the apex of the British Empire. ...
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Low brow culture has always flourished in Bandon as well evidenced by the towns many taciturn bars, tasteless public sculptures and manifold tracksuit/sports jersey-clad population. “Bating heads” (Bate: Bandonian phonetic pronunciation for the word “Beat”) has ever been a popular pastime in Bandon. The visitor would be well advised to keep his / her nose clean in Bandon’s bars lest many of its contemporary “nouveux-neandertals” precipitate serious aggravated assault upon their person [usually on account of trivial or imagined slights]. Such ‘theatrical sounding’ persons and their menace are assuredly quite real in Bandon and they account for a significant minority of the towns populous. Some of their popular mantras include “I’ll bate your head” (Bate: Bandonian phonetic pronunciation for the word “Beat”); “I’ll claim ya” (I will beat you in a fight) and “I’ll hit ya a baux” (I will box you) to mention but a few. These misguided souls provide Bandon with it’s very distinctive menacing undertone which can be felt most acutely around the town on any dry night but especially at weekends [dry because inclement weather often keeps the ‘missing links’ indoors]. Boy Racers too are common along with their tacky modifications to cheap cars: interior / exterior UV lights, garish alloy wheels / paint jobs and noisy exhausts are the order of the day. Accessorised by tracksuits and partners with hoopy earrings, these people are usually so burdened with car modification debts that they’re only recourse is to sit in their cars and do nothing. One can only imagine what kind of thought processes occur in the impenetrable depths where the light cannot shine. Sales of such gutter press publications as “Nuts” magazine are brisk in Bandon town; popularised for their potent mix of car accessories and crass nudity. The need to appear to be tough or “hard” in Bandon is common, [if not quite all pervasive]. Littering, mindless vandalism, engaging in threatening behaviour and the throwing of detritus into the Bandon river are usually seen as the most effective ways to engender such repute among the towns general populous. To sample this culture first hand all one need do is to go to Dalys mobile fish and chip shops after pub closing time at weekends where one may observe all of the above over the course of an hour or perhaps even simultaneously. High Brow culture by comparison has traditionally been fearful of raising its head [for fear its head would be “bate off”]. None the less, recent years have seen the opening of some gourmet restaurants and cafes and no less than two art galleries. These signs might be the first tacit indications of a sea change away from the mindlessness aggression that has for so long described the towns’ character. Such initiatives are making their presence felt with some trepidation. None the less, the vacuous pursuits of sports continue to predominate the towns psyche and most of the locals are still far more preoccupied with thirty people running around a field kicking a ball than anything of any cultural or intellectual significance: Do not look among the denizens of Bandon’s GAA, Rugby or Golf aficionados for the artisan, the poet, the musician or artist. You will only find the culturally stunted. Local Myth has it that when the president of the GAA was once recommended to read a philosophical work of Immanuel Kants in Bandon’s book shop that he was said to have asked “and what is plot?” Television presenter and Bandonian Graham Norton describes the town in Dante-esque terms in his recent autobiography as being “the last outpost of Hell”. In an interview on The Sunday Times (Oct-7-2007) he recalls an early impression of living in Bandon where he and his family were made to feel like foreigners in their own country (for being Church of Ireland).
Sport - Bandon Rugby Football Club were the inaugural winners of the Munster Senior Rugby Cup in when they defeated Garryowen Football Club in the final in 1886.
- Bandon AFC play at the Town Park on the Macroom Road. The club has active mens, juveniles and ladies teams. The ladies team play in the West Cork winter league and in the Cork Ladies Soccer League ([2]in the summer.The club website can be found here
// 1880s 1886 Bandon beat Garryowen 1887 Queens College beat Limerick County 1888 Queens College beat Garryowen 1889 Garryowen beat Limerick County 1890s 1890 Garryowen beat Queens College 1891 Garryowen 1892 Garryowen beat Queens College 1893 Garryowen 1894 Garryowen 1895 Garryowen 1896 Garryowen 1897 Queens College beat Garryowen 1898 Garryowen beat...
Garryowen Football Club, usually referred to as Garryowen, is a rugby union club in Limerick, Republic of Ireland, founded in 1884. ...
See also This is a link page for cities and towns in the Republic of Ireland, including larger villages, and villages and townlands of note, as well as towns, townships or urban centres in Dublin. ...
// This constituency was based in the town of Bandon in County Cork. ...
External links Coordinates: 51.745207° N 8.735933° W Map of Earth showing lines of latitude (horizontally) and longitude (vertically), Eckert VI projection; large version (pdf, 1. ...
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