22 August 2021
By Elaine Murphy
elaine@TheCork.ie
News in Photos
Cork City Libraries, in association with Togher/Ballyphehane Centenary committee, named the community room in Tory Top Library, The Joe Murphy Room to honour Joe, a young local Irish Volunteer from Pouladuff Road. Joe was arrested at his home and imprisoned along with other IRA prisoners of the time including Ard Mhéara Terence MacSwiney. They commenced a Hunger Strike against the injustice of their imprisonment. On 25 October 1920, after fasting for 76 days, the 25-year-old Joe Murphy died, within hours of the passing of Terence MacSwiney in Brixton Prison. They were buried near each other in St Finbarr’s Cemetery.
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Lord Mayor of Cork, Cllr Colm Kelleher, pictured at the Dedication of the community room in Tory Top Library, Ballyphehane, Cork, to local hero Joe Murphy in a socially distanced event as part of Heritage Week.
Picture: Michael O’Sullivan /OSM PHOTO
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Louise Kelleher, Joe Murphy’s great grand niece, Ballincollig, pictured with Lord Mayor of Cork, Cllr Colm Kelleher
Picture: Michael O’Sullivan /OSM PHOTO
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Casey Walsh, Ballyphehane/Greenmount UBU Project, Foróige, pictured with Lord Mayor of Cork, Cllr Colm Kelleher
Picture: Michael O’Sullivan /OSM PHOTO