Curious Cork

Spend some time exploring the People's Republic of Cork — if they let you in...

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What you might see

☘Wanderly wagons and Mongolian yurtsglamping in painted caravans and felt tents
☘Ireland's Alcatrazan island prison reached only by boat
☘A mobile sauna on the beacha wood-fired sauna towed to the shoreline for sea dips
☘A tribute to the Choctaw Nationa sculpture thanking the tribe for Famine-era aid
☘Sumo competitionspadded-suit sumo bouts held as a local fundraiser
☘The People's RepublicCork's own half-joking claim to independent statehood
☘The Butter Museuma whole museum for the trade that built the city
☘Cork City Gaol's waxwork inmateseerily lifelike figures staged in the cells
☘A shrine to Rory Gallaghera corner of the city given over to the blues guitarist