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Extract from the Cork Travel Guides:
Old
CORK
city - the second city of the Republic - is built on an island, the two channels of the River Lee embracing it either side while nineteenth-century suburbs sprawl up the surrounding hills. This gives the city centre a compactness and sharp definition. It's a place of great charm, with a history of vigorous intellectual independence, and approached from rural Ireland, it has a surprisingly cosmopolitan feel to it.
Evidence of Cork's history as a great mercantile centre is everywhere, with grey stone quaysides, old warehouses and elegant and quirky bridges spanning the river. Many of the city's streets were at one...
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