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Farmhouse Cheese\'s available in the market

On the Pigs Back in the English Market offers excellent cheese and charcuterie from both home and abroad. Whether its for the home table or a restaurant, they can cater for all your needs. The staff are friendly, professional and most important know about all the products they sell.

Fresh Fruit and Vegetables

The market includes a wide choice of healthy, nutritious and flavorsome vegetables, including Organic selections and fruit.

Cork English Market

It is one of the oldest of its kind. Trading as a market since 1788, it predates most of the other markets like it. Barcelona\'s famous Boqueria market did not start until 80 years after it first started to serve the people of Cork. It has survived the Famine, Revolutions, Wars, Fire and Economic decline..

Lunch-time treat with coffee

Today you can find the older traditional stalls, Vegetable, Butchers, Fruit, Fishmongers along side Cheese, Pasta, Health, Coffee, Sandwich, Oriental stalls but to name a few. Produce that would have only been seen on holidays on far off exotic places are now readly available in the market every day.

Overlooking the fountain from Farm-Gate

A lot of things taste better in Ireland: the Guinness, the farmhouse cheese, the fried pork, the dirty spuds. Since some of us aren\'t ready to ditch the St. Patrick\'s-ian mindset, this has to be one of the Emerald Isle\'s best culinary destinations: The English Market in Cork City, an indoor covered market hall and Ireland\'s answer to the lively, delicious Turkish bazaars. It\'s been around since 1786.

Heavens Cakes beautiful with coffee

Heavens Cakes has got the right idea when it comes to cakes & savoury tarts.
Just looking at these beautiful tasty treats may put on a few calories, but when you taste them its well worth it.
Trading now in the market for a number of years they have started to give to the locals what used to be seen in cookery books or on the television.

The Real Olive Company

In the Grand Parade market the range of olives and the produce that they are selling includes chillies, feta cheese, pickles, sun-dried tomatoes, vine leaves, olive oil and dried fruits.

General Info

Feeding You and Your Baby Right From the Start

Most of us know that eating a healthy, balanced diet will help to keep us fit and healthy and prevent disease in later life, but few of us think seriously about our food until we start to plan a pregnancy. That is when we realise that what we eat will affect not just our health but also the health of the baby.

New Market after fire

The following article appeared in The Cork Examiner on Wednesday October 29th 1980, for the new restoration plans of the Princes Street market. CORK'S famous city centre Princes Street market, destroyed by fire last June, is to be restored to its former glory and re-opened to the public next July.Tenders for the restoration work go out today to five of the nine contractors who expressed an interest in the project and work is due to start early next year.

The "new" market, which will be as near as possible in design to the original building, will have five stalls on the balcony as well as a restaurant/coffee shop. There will be twelve stalls on the ground floor.
At last night's meeting of Cork Corporation, a model of the new building (see picture right) was on display and councillors were given an up-to-date report of the planned restoration.
A new lighting system will make the most of the fountain which is to be raised on a plinth and put back Into working order.

A ceramic tile floor is to be laid and, according to the project architects, Jack Healy and D. Berkeley, this will greatly add to the visual Impact of the fountain which will be spotlit.
In selecting contractors to be invited to tender, consideration was given to the fact that the preparation of the detailed roof trusses and other high-class Joinery would require that the contractor would have access to a

good Joinery workshop where the trusses could be fabricated under supervision by the architects.
More natural light will be let into the building through scotch tint glass in the roof, and a canopy will be erected over the ground floor stalls.
One of the significant changes in the new building will be the restaurant and new sales units on the balcony.
Meetings have been held with the traders who were affected as a result of last Jane's fire and agreement has been reached with them on the proposed lay-out The City Manager, R r. T. J. McHugh, said last night that he hoped to set the restoration work starting as soon as possible after Christmas.

The brief if the Council had been, he said, to put the building back as it was, with some improvements such as tiled floor, modern hygienic conditions, toilets, etc.

Cllr. Paud Black, Chairman of the Mrrkets Sob Committee, outlined the plans for the balcony stalls.
The City Architect's Department is responsible for the design of the reconstruction of the project, under Mr. Pat Kesnan, Assistant City Manager, and Mr. T. F. McNamari, City Architect.

Orginal report By Denis Reading