Cork Occupations

[Christopher]

These sites contains a lot of useful information
Butter making was an important industry in Cork in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. http://homepage.eircom.net/~stmarysonthehill/area/buttera.htm http://corkbutter.museum/about
Cork Electric Tramways and Lighting Company
http://www.askaboutireland.ie/show_narrative_page.do?page_id=1808
Hatters and Cap Makers
The Cork Cap Factory (T. O'Gorman) made the famous Shandon caps.
www.corkpastandpresent.ie/corkimages/misc-butter.shtml
Cotton, Brewing and Distilling at Overton Mill, Bandon http://tinyurl.com/4h5rut
History Cork Fire Brigade
http://www.corkcity.ie/ourservices/rac/firebrigade/history
Military, RIC, Garda, etc
www.sci.net.au/userpages/mgrogan/cork/a_military.htm

[Christopher]

The Bird family of Co. Cork are well known in the Funfair industry. Their family Funfair was started by William Bird, Snr who was born in 1908. Despite the fact that his father was a bookmaker by the time William reached the age of twelve he claimed to be earning more than his father.  One of Billy Bird's gimmicks, which proved to be a crowd puller, was the raffling of tea in quarter pound packets at a time when tea was rationed. The tea came from Co. Cork hurlers, the Barry brothers, members of a family who had owned a tea distribution and importing business since 1901.