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'{{EngvarB|date=October 2013}} {{Use dmy dates|date=October 2013}} {{Infobox settlement |name = Mallow |native_name = {{lang|ga|Mala}} |native_name_lang = ga |settlement_type = Town |image_skyline = Mallowtown.jpg |image_caption = Main Street, Mallow, featuring the clockhouse and the junction of Spa Road and Bridge Street |motto = ''Per Ignem et Aquam'' (''Through Fire and Water'') |pushpin_map = Ireland |pushpin_label_position = right |pushpin_map_caption = Location in Ireland |coordinates = {{coord|52.131|-8.6415|dim:100000_region:IE|display=inline,title}} |subdivision_type = Country |subdivision_name = Ireland |subdivision_type1 = [[Provinces of Ireland|Province]] |subdivision_type2 = [[Counties of Ireland|County]] |subdivision_name1 = [[Munster]] |subdivision_name2 = [[County Cork|Cork]] |unit_pref = Metric |elevation_m = 74 |area_urban_footnotes = <ref name=cso2016>{{cite web | url = http://www.cso.ie/px/pxeirestat/Statire/SelectVarVal/Define.asp?MainTable=E2014&PLanguage=0&PXSId=0 | title = Population Density and Area Size 2016 | publisher = [[Central Statistics Office (Ireland)]] | access-date = 26 December 2017 | archive-date = 24 March 2019 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20190324025223/https://www.cso.ie/px/pxeirestat/Statire/SelectVarVal/Define.asp?MainTable=E2014&PLanguage=0&PXSId=0 | url-status = live }}</ref> |area_urban_km2 = 8.2 |population_as_of = 2016 |population_footnotes = <ref name=cso2016/> |population_total = 12,459 |population_density_km2 = 1,517.9 |blank_name_sec1 = Irish Grid Reference |blank_info_sec1 = {{iem4ibx|W549982}} |website = {{URL|mallow.ie}} | area_code_type = [[Telephone numbers in the Republic of Ireland|Telephone area code]] | area_code = +353(0)22 | postal_code_type =[[Eircode]] routing key | postal_code =P51 |timezone = [[Western European Time|WET]] |utc_offset = ±0 |timezone_DST = [[Irish Standard Time|IST]] |utc_offset_DST = +1 }} '''Mallow''' ({{IPAc-en|'|m|æ|l|oʊ}}; {{Irish place name|Mala|no_translate=yes}}<ref>{{Cite web |title=Mala/Mallow |url=https://www.logainm.ie/en/654 |access-date=2022-05-27 |website=logainm.ie |language=en}}</ref>) is a town in [[County Cork]], Ireland, approximately thirty-five kilometres north of [[Cork (city)|Cork]]. Mallow is in the [[Fermoy (barony)|barony of Fermoy]]. It is the administrative centre of north County Cork, and the Northern Divisional Offices of Cork County Council are located in the town. Mallow is part of the [[Cork East (Dáil constituency)|Cork East]] Dáil constituency. COLM GEARY OWNS MALLOW The earliest form of the name is ''Magh nAla'', meaning "plain of the stone".<ref name="logainm">{{cite web |title=Mala / Mallow |url=http://www.logainm.ie/1414050.aspx |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131029193334/http://www.logainm.ie/1414050.aspx |archive-date=29 October 2013 |access-date=10 March 2019 |website=logainm.ie |publisher=Placenames Database of Ireland}}</ref> In the [[anglicisation]] "Mallow", ''-ow'' originally represented a [[Vowel reduction|reduc]]ed [[schwa]] sound ({{IPAc-en|'|m|æ|l|ə}}), which is now however pronounced as a full vowel {{IPAc-en|oʊ}}.<ref>{{cite book |title=Gazetteer of Ireland / Gasaitéar na hÉireann |year=1989 |publisher=[[Government of Ireland]] |isbn=0-7076-0076-6 }}</ref> In 1975, ''Mala''—a shortening of ''Magh nAla''—was among the first Irish placenames adopted by [[statutory instrument|statute]],<ref>{{cite web |title=I.R. Uimh. 133/1975 – An tOrdú Logainmneacha (Foirmeacha Gaeilge) (Uimh. 1) (Postbhailte) 1975. |url=http://www.irishstatutebook.ie/1975/ga/si/0133.html |language=ga |date=22 July 1975 |access-date=27 January 2008 |publisher=[[Government of Ireland]] |quote=Mallow (33) Mala ([[Irish declension#Genitive|g.]] Mhala) |archive-date=29 February 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120229235141/http://www.irishstatutebook.ie/1975/ga/si/0133.html |url-status=live }}</ref> on the advice of the Placenames branch of the [[Ordnance Survey of Ireland]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Placenames Orders |url=http://www.pobail.ie/en/IrishLanguage/ThePlacenamesBranch/PlacenamesOrders/ |access-date=27 January 2008 |publisher=[[Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth|Department of Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs]] |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080402220255/http://www.pobail.ie/en/IrishLanguage/ThePlacenamesBranch/PlacenamesOrders/ |archive-date=2 April 2008 |df=dmy-all }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=The Placenames Commission |url=http://www.logainm.ie/English/history.asp |access-date=27 January 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070924124141/http://www.logainm.ie/English/history.asp |archive-date=24 September 2007 |url-status=dead }}</ref> In the ''[[Annals of the Four Masters]]'', compiled in the 1630s, ''Magh nAla'' is misrepresented as ''Magh Eala'', the [[County Donegal|Donegal]]-based authors being insufficiently familiar with [[County Cork|Cork]] places.<ref name="ucc-prof">{{cite news |title=Marshmallows |newspaper=[[The Irish Times]] |first=Roibeárd |last=Ó hÚrdail |date=1 March 1996 |page=15 }}</ref> [[Patrick Weston Joyce|P.W. Joyce]] in 1869 surmised that in ''Magh Eala'' {{sic}}, ''Ealla'' referred to the river Blackwater, and connected the name to the nearby [[baronies of Ireland|barony]] of [[Duhallow]].<ref name="ucc-prof"/> Professor [[T. F. O'Rahilly]] in 1938 interpreted ''Magh Eala'' as "plain of the swans".<ref name="ucc-prof"/> This [[false etymology]] remains widely cited and has caused resentment by some of the official ''Mala'' as being a gratuitous simplification of ''Magh Eala''.<ref name="ucc-prof"/> However, the name ''Mala'' has been used in Irish for more than 300 years.<ref name=logainm/> ==History== Evidence of pre-historic settlement is found in [[Beenalaght]] (13.6&nbsp;km/8.5 miles south-west of Mallow), where an [[Stone row|alignment]] of six [[standing stones]] lie on a hill to the west of the Mallow-[[Coachford]] Road.<ref>{{cite book | last=Weir, A| year=1980 |title=Early Ireland. A Field Guide | publisher=Blackstaff Press | location=Belfast | page=113 | isbn=0-85640-212-5}}</ref> (grid ref: 485 873, Latitude: 52.035818N Longitude: 8.751181W).<ref>{{cite web | title=Beenalaght | work=The Megalithic Portal | url=http://www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=1768 | access-date=11 June 2008 | archive-date=10 June 2011 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110610084228/http://www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=1768 | url-status=live }}</ref> During the [[Irish War of Independence]], the town served as the headquarters of the North Cork Militia (also known as North Cork Rifles), a unit in the [[Irish Republican Army (1919–1922)|Irish Republican Army]] (IRA). On 27 September, IRA commanders [[Ernie O'Malley]] and [[Liam Lynch (Irish republican)|Liam Lynch]] led the Cork No. 2 Brigade in an attack against the military barracks in Mallow, which was garrisoned by elements of the [[17th Lancers]]. The successful attack saw the IRA capture large quantities of firearms and ammunition, partially burning the barracks in the process. In reprisal, angered soldiers from [[Buttevant]] and [[Fermoy]] went on a rampage in Mallow, burning several main street premises, including the [[town hall]] and [[creamery]], on the next day.<ref> https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/Rebel_Cork_s_Fighting_Story_1916_21/FpOZpEu1XYwC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=28+September+1920+mallow&pg=PA121&printsec=frontcover </ref><ref> https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/Political_Conflict_in_East_Ulster_1920_2/wAk7EAAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=28+September+1920+mallow&pg=PA49&printsec=frontcover </ref><ref>O'Malley, ''On Another Man's Wound'', pp. 239–247</ref> On February 1921, the IRA killed the wife of RIC Captain W. H. King during a botched assassination attempt on her husband near the Mallow railway station. In retaliation, a detachment of the [[Black and Tans]] briefly occupied the station, arresting and killing three of its occupants- Patrick Devitt, Daniel Mullane and Denis Bennett, all of whom were railway workers. The killings prompted an [[industrial action]] by the National Railworkers Union in Britain and Ireland.<ref>{{cite book|last=Keane|first=Barry|title=Cork's Revolutionary Dead|year=2017|publisher=[[Mercier Press]]|isbn=978-1-7811-7496-8|url=https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/Cork_s_Revolutionary_Dead/QD3BDwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=Patrick+Devitt,+Daniel+Mullane&pg=PT225&printsec=frontcover}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=O'Donoghue|first=Florence|title=No other law: the story of Liam Lynch and the Irish Republican Army, 1916–1923|year=1954|publisher=Irish Press|pages=132|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=izdoAAAAMAAJ&q=%22Captain+King+was+accompanied+by+his+wife+and+in+the+exchange+of+fire%22}}</ref> ==Geography== Mallow lies on the [[Munster Blackwater|River Blackwater]], and developed as a defensive settlement protecting an important fort on the river. Some of the highest naturally occurring readings of [[radon]] ever have been recorded in Mallow, prompting local fears regarding lung cancer.<ref>{{cite news | title=Record radon levels found at Mallow office | work=RTÉ News | url=http://www.rte.ie/news/2007/0920/radon.html | access-date=17 July 2009 | date=20 September 2007 | archive-date=20 September 2010 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100920151810/http://www.rte.ie/news/2007/0920/radon.html | url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Ireland's Radon Gas Levels Dangerous |work=Radon Barrier Co Ltd |url=http://interplanleisuregroup.com/site/irelands-radon-levels-dangerous |access-date=17 July 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090512001127/http://interplanleisuregroup.com/site/irelands-radon-levels-dangerous |archive-date=12 May 2009 }}</ref> ==Demography== {{Historical populations |1821|4114 |1831|5229 |1841|6851 |1851|5439 |1861|4841 |1871|4165 |1881|4439 |1891|4366 |1901|4542 |1911|4452 |1926|4562 |1936|4948 |1946|5215 |1951|5583 |1956|5729 |1961|5649 |1966|5845 |1971|6506 |1981|7482 |1986|7685 |1991|7521 |1996|7768 |2002|8937 |2006|10241 |2011|11605 |2016|12459 | footnote=<ref>[http://www.cso.ie/census Census for post 1821 figures.] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050309005718/http://www.cso.ie/census/ |date=9 March 2005 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.histpop.org |title=Histpop - The Online Historical Population Reports Website |date= |website=www.histpop.org |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160507023856/http://www.histpop.org/ |archive-date=7 May 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nisranew.nisra.gov.uk/census |title=Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency - Census Home Page |access-date=2016-11-15 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120217095720/http://www.nisranew.nisra.gov.uk/census/ |archive-date=17 February 2012 }}</ref><ref>{{cite book | last=Lee|first=JJ| author-link =John Joseph Lee|editor-last=Goldstrom|editor-first=J. M.|editor2-last=Clarkson | editor2-first=L. A.|title=Irish Population, Economy, and Society: Essays in Honour of the Late K. H. Connell | year=1981|publisher=Clarendon Press|location=Oxford, England | chapter=On the accuracy of the [[Great Famine (Ireland)|Pre-famine]] Irish censuses}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal | last1 = Mokyr | first1 = Joel | author-link = Joel Mokyr | last2 = O Grada | first2 = Cormac | author2-link = Cormac Ó Gráda | title = New Developments in Irish Population History, 1700–1850 | journal = The Economic History Review | volume = 37 | issue = 4 | pages = 473–488 |date=November 1984 | url = http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/120035880/abstract | archive-url = https://archive.today/20121204160709/http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/120035880/abstract | url-status = dead | archive-date = 2012-12-04 | doi = 10.1111/j.1468-0289.1984.tb00344.x | hdl = 10197/1406 | hdl-access = free }}</ref> }} As of the 2016 census, the town had a population of 12,459.<ref name=cso2016/> In the same census the population was reportedly made up of 76% white Irish, 1% white Irish travellers, 12% other white ethnicities, 4% black, 2% Asian, 2% other, with 3% not stating their ethnicity.<ref name="sapmap">{{cite web | title = Mallow Demographics | url = http://census.cso.ie/sapmap2016/Results.aspx?Geog_Type=ST2016&Geog_Code=C6AA9590-4F5A-44DD-B389-03DB053DC7D3 | publisher = CSO | work = Census 2016 - Small Area Population Statistics | date = 2016 | access-date = 2 April 2018 | archive-date = 3 April 2018 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20180403052109/http://census.cso.ie/sapmap2016/Results.aspx?Geog_Type=ST2016&Geog_Code=C6AA9590-4F5A-44DD-B389-03DB053DC7D3 | url-status = live }}</ref> ==Economy== Mallow developed in the late 16th century as a [[plantations of Ireland|plantation]] town. It prospered throughout the centuries as a market town due to its rich agricultural hinterland.{{Citation needed|date=November 2008}} Irish statesmen such as [[Thomas Davis (Young Irelander)|Thomas Davis]] and [[William O'Brien]] were both born in Mallow in the 19th century. The main street in Mallow is called Davis Street (although commonly referred to as Main Street), and joins with William O'Brien Street outside Mallow Town Hall. At the point where Davis Street meets O'Brien Street there is a monument to J.J. Fitzgerald, a little-known local politician who was involved in establishing both Mallow Urban District Council and Cork County Council.{{citation needed|date=September 2018}} The town developed an industrial base in the early 20th century, based largely on its agricultural capability, with dairy produce and sugar beet supplying the Sugar Factory, [[Rowntree Mackintosh]], [[Bournes]] and [[Dairygold]]. Changes in the [[European Union]] sugar subsidy programme resulted in the closure of the sugar beet factory in mid-2006, after 75 years of continual production. One of the last sugar beet plants to be closed in Ireland. ==Transport and communications== ===Road=== Mallow lies at the convergence of several important routes: National Primary Route 20 ([[N20 road|N20]]) north-south [[Roads in Ireland|road]] between [[Cork (city)|Cork]] (35&nbsp;km) and [[Limerick]] (70&nbsp;km), National Secondary Route 72 ([[N72 road (Ireland)|N72]]) east-west between [[Dungarvan]] (51.5&nbsp;km) and [[Killarney]] (41.5&nbsp;km), National Secondary Route 73 ([[N73 road (Ireland)|N73]]) northeast to [[Mitchelstown]] and the [[M8 motorway (Ireland)|M8 motorway]] (21&nbsp;km). [[File:Rth Mallow Town 02.10.12R edited-2.jpg|thumb|right|Mallow looking southwest from the railway station]] ===Bus=== Mallow is a stop on the [[Bus Éireann]] 51 bus service from [[Cork (city)|Cork]] to [[Galway]] and 243 bus service from [[Cork (city)|Cork]] to [[Newmarket, County Cork|Newmarket]] service. ===Rail=== The Mallow railway [[viaduct]] which straddles the Blackwater, commonly known as the "Ten Arch Bridge", was bombed and destroyed during the [[Irish Civil War]]. It was rapidly rebuilt in girder form due to its importance in connecting the [[Cork (city)|Cork]], [[Tralee]] and [[Dublin]] lines. An additional line east through [[Fermoy]] and [[Lismore, County Waterford|Lismore]] to the [[Waterford]] South station closed in 1967. [[Mallow railway station]] was opened on 17 March 1849 by the [[Great Southern and Western Railway]].<ref>{{cite web | title=Mallow station | work=Railscot – Irish Railways | url=http://www.railscot.co.uk/Ireland/Irish_railways.pdf | access-date=31 August 2007 | archive-date=27 November 2007 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071127054525/http://www.railscot.co.uk/Ireland/Irish_railways.pdf | url-status=live }}</ref> It is served by trains to via [[Limerick Junction]] to [[Dublin Heuston]], [[Cork railway station|Cork]] and [[Killarney railway station|Killarney]], [[Farranfore railway station|Farranfore]] and [[Tralee railway station|Tralee]]. Onward connecting trains link Mallow via [[Limerick Junction]] to [[Limerick railway station|Limerick]], [[Ennis railway station|Ennis]], [[Athenry railway station|Athenry]] and [[Galway railway station|Galway]] as well as [[Carrick-on-Suir railway station|Carrick-on-Suir]] and [[Waterford railway station|Waterford]]. ===Air=== The nearest airports are [[Cork Airport]] (42.5&nbsp;km), [[Kerry Airport]] (70&nbsp;km) and [[Shannon Airport]] (84&nbsp;km). Kerry Airport is accessible by train from [[Farranfore railway station]].{{citation needed|date=September 2018}} There is a [[flying club]] at nearby [[Rathcoole Aerodrome]], and a helicopter charter company in nearby Dromahane.{{citation needed|date=November 2020}} [[Cork Racecourse|Mallow Racecourse]], now known as Cork Racecourse, became an emergency airfield on 18 April 1983, when a Mexican [[Gulfstream II]] business jet piloted by Captain Reuben Ocaña made a precautionary landing. A temporary [[tarmacadam]] runway of 910&nbsp;m (3,000&nbsp;ft) in length which was paid for by the plane's insurers was laid to enable the aircraft to leave five weeks later. In the meantime, Captain Ocaña became a local celebrity. On 23 May 1983 just before the plane departed, the Captain said his farewell to the people of Ireland in the Irish language.<ref name=IFTN>{{cite web|last=Hegarty|first=Mandy|title=Interview: 'The Runway' Writer/Director Ian Power On His Debut Feature Film|url=http://iftn.ie/news/featureinterviews/?act1=record&only=1&aid=73&rid=4283942&tpl=archnews|publisher=[[Irish Film and Television Network]]|access-date=28 November 2013|archive-date=7 May 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150507041302/http://iftn.ie/news/featureinterviews/?act1=record&only=1&aid=73&rid=4283942&tpl=archnews|url-status=live}}</ref> The runway was subsequently used for parking during race meets and for learner driving. Light aircraft have occasionally landed at the racecourse on the grass area. The F3A World Model Aircraft Aerobatic Championship was held there in 2001. The 1983 incident formed the basis of the 2010 film ''The Runway''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.monstersandcritics.com/movies/reviews/article_1701333.php/The-Runway-?-Movie-Review|title=The Runway – Movie Review|last=Wilkinson|first=Ron|date=25 July 2012|publisher=Monsters and Critics|access-date=4 August 2012|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131029191447/http://www.monstersandcritics.com/movies/reviews/article_1701333.php/The-Runway-?-Movie-Review|archive-date=29 October 2013|df=dmy-all}}</ref> ==Sport== Founded in 1882, Mallow Rugby Club is one of the oldest rugby clubs in the country.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.mallowrfc.com/ |title=Official Mallow Rugby Website |access-date=25 September 2021 |archive-date=21 January 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210121163918/https://www.mallowrfc.com/ |url-status=live }}</ref> Former players include [[Munster Rugby|Munster]] Second Row [[Ian Nagle]], who played juvenile rugby for Mallow and [[Ulster Rugby|Ulster]] Prop Jerry Cronin, who played juvenile and Junior Rugby for the club.{{citation needed|date=September 2018}} The town's association football club, [[Mallow United F.C.|Mallow United Football Club]], was founded in 1926 and fields senior, junior, schoolboy, and schoolgirl football teams in the Munster Leagues.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.mallowunited.com/ |title=Official Mallow United FC Website |access-date=25 September 2021 |archive-date=9 January 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180109040633/http://www.mallowunited.com/ |url-status=live }}</ref> The local racecourse, [[Cork Racecourse]], now renamed "Cork Racecourse Mallow",<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.corkracecourse.ie/ |title=Cork Racecourse Mallow |access-date=25 September 2021 |archive-date=6 September 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210906115201/https://www.corkracecourse.ie/ |url-status=live }}</ref> plays host to large [[horse racing]] events. [[Mallow GAA]] is the town's GAA club, and fields teams in [[hurling]] and [[Gaelic football]]. The club won the [[2017 Cork Premier Intermediate Football Championship]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.irishexaminer.com/sport/gaa/arid-20460952.html|title=Heartbreak for St Michael's as Mallow win Cork Premier Intermediate final|publisher=Irish Examiner|website=irishexaminer.com|date=16 October 2017|access-date=15 August 2020|first=Therese|last=O'Callaghan|archive-date=25 November 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201125120326/https://www.irishexaminer.com/sport/gaa/arid-20460952.html|url-status=live}}</ref> Mallow Golf Club, founded in 1947, is located just outside Mallow and has 18 holes.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.mallowgolfclub.net/ |title=Mallow Golf Club |access-date=25 September 2021 |archive-date=4 March 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210304120703/https://www.mallowgolfclub.net/ |url-status=live }}</ref> Mallow AC is a local running club.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.mallowac.ie/ |title=Mallow AC |access-date=25 September 2021 |archive-date=10 June 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210610060626/https://mallowac.ie/ |url-status=live }}</ref> ==Amenities== Mallow has a cinema as well as other community amenities such the Youth Centre and a nearby swimming pool. It also has several gyms. The town also has several pubs and nightclubs. ==People== [[File:The West End is definitely the place to go ... in Mallow! (26139647536).jpg|thumb|Thomas Davis Street (Main Street), Mallow in August 1903]] *[[Celeste Bowe|Sister Celeste Bowe]] (1931–1976), [[Daughters of Charity of Saint Vincent de Paul]] nun and nurse was born in Newberry, Mallow<ref name="Lunney">{{cite book|last1=Lunney|first1=Sheila|title=[[Dictionary of Irish Biography]]|date=2009|publisher=Cambridge University Press|editor1-last=McGuire|editor1-first=James|location=Cambridge|chapter=Bowe, Catherine Mary (Sister Celeste)|editor2-last=Quinn|editor2-first=James|chapter-url = https://dib.cambridge.org/viewReadPage.do?articleId=a9296}}</ref> *[[Elaine Crowley (presenter)|Elaine Crowley]] (b.1977), television presenter from [[New Twopothouse|Newtwopothouse]] near Mallow<ref>{{cite web|url = https://www.echolive.ie/corklives/My-Weekend-Its-off-with-the-makeup-and-bra-and-on-with-the-comfies-on-a-Friday-night-2ae197d8-9ecb-45db-9ae0-d590b82f45f9-ds | publisher = The Echo | website = echolive.ie | title = My Weekend | date = 28 February 2020 | access-date = 13 August 2020 }}</ref> *[[Thomas Davis (Young Irelander)|Thomas Osborne Davis]] (1814–1845), nationalist, politician, author, poet and author of the rebel song "[[A Nation Once Again]]", was born here.<ref>{{cite DNB|wstitle=Davis, Thomas Osborne|last=Hutton|first=William Holden|author-link=William Holden Hutton|no-icon=1}}</ref> *[[Carl Dodd (Irish Army officer)|Carl Dodd]] (1942–2018), [[Irish Army]] officer who served as Chief of Staff of the [[United Nations Truce Supervision Organization]] (UNTSO) from 2002 to 2004, was born in Mallow.{{fact|date=October 2022}} *[[Donovan]] (b.1946), singer born in [[Scotland]] who now lives near Mallow<ref>{{cite web | url = https://www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/arid-20459130.html | publisher = Irish Examiner | website = irishexaminer.com | title = Donovan: Call him Mallow yellow | date = 18 September 2017 | access-date = 13 August 2020 | archive-date = 7 May 2021 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20210507031539/https://www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/arid-20459130.html | url-status = live }}</ref> *[[John Hogan (Missouri politician)|John Hogan]] (1805–1892), a [[United States representative]] from [[Missouri]] born in Mallow.<ref>{{CongBio|H000691|John Hogan|inline= yes }}</ref> *[[Paul Kane]] (1810–1871), Canadian painter<ref>{{cite DCB |last=Harper |first=J. Russell |authorlink=John Russell Harper |title=Paul Kane |volume=10 |url=http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/kane_paul_10E.html}}</ref> *[[Joe Lynch (actor)|Joe Lynch]] (1925–2001), actor<ref>{{cite web | url = https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/joe-lynch-9263479.html | publisher = The Independent (UK) | website = independent.co.uk | title = Obituaries - Joe Lynch | date = 13 August 2001 | access-date = 13 August 2020 }}{{Dead link|date=September 2021 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> *[[Joan Denise Moriarty]] (c.1910–1992), [[ballet]] dancer, dance teacher and musician, and niece of John Francis (below), is believed to have been born in Mallow.<ref>{{cite web | url = https://www.independent.ie/entertainment/books/joan-denise-moriarty-mother-of-the-dance-26837705.html | publisher = Independent News & Media | website = independent.ie | title = Joan Denise Moriarty: Mother of the dance | date = 11 March 2012 | access-date = 13 August 2020 | archive-date = 6 October 2017 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20171006162748/http://www.independent.ie/entertainment/books/joan-denise-moriarty-mother-of-the-dance-26837705.html | url-status = live }}</ref> *[[John Francis Moriarty]] (1855–1915) [[Attorney General for Ireland]] and judge of the [[Irish Court of Appeal]].{{citation needed|date=August 2020}} *[[Robert Murphy (mathematician)|Robert Murphy]] (1806–1843), mathematician and physicist.<ref name="DNB">{{cite DNB|wstitle=Murphy, Robert|volume=39}}</ref> *[[William O'Brien]] (1852–1928), nationalist, journalist, agrarian agitator, social revolutionary, politician, party leader, newspaper publisher and author.<ref>{{Britannica|423987|William O'Brien}}</ref> *[[Stephen O'Flynn]] (b.1982), former [[League of Ireland]] and [[NIFL Premiership]] footballer<ref>{{cite web|url = https://www.extratime.com/articles/16475/stephen-oflynn-interview---any-time-i-did-well-was-when-i-enjoyed-my-football/ | website = extratime.com | title = Stephen O'Flynn interview | access-date = 13 August 2020 }}</ref> *[[John Baptist Purcell]] (1800–1883), Bishop of Cincinnati from 1833 to his death. *[[Richard Quain (Irish physician)|Richard Quain]] (1816–1898), physician to [[Queen Victoria]], author of Quain's Dictionary of Medicine. *[[Seán Sherlock]] (b.1972), [[Labour Party (Ireland)|Labour Party]] [[Teachta Dála|TD]] for Cork East Constituency, was born in Mallow{{citation needed|date=August 2020}} *[[Sir Edward Sullivan, 1st Baronet]] (1822–1885), [[Lord Chancellor of Ireland]], was born in Mallow.<ref>{{Cite ODNB|id=26774|title=Sullivan, Sir Edward, first baronet}}</ref> ==International relations== {{Main article|List of twin towns and sister cities in the Republic of Ireland}} Mallow is [[town twinning|twinned]] with the towns of *{{flagicon|USA}} [[Tinley Park, Illinois|Tinley Park]], [[Illinois]], United States<ref>{{cite web | url = https://ie.usembassy.gov/our-relationship/policy-history/sister-cities/ | publisher = US Embassy in Ireland | website = ie.usembassy.gov | title = Sister Cities | access-date = 13 August 2020 | archive-date = 25 December 2018 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20181225082042/https://ie.usembassy.gov/our-relationship/policy-history/sister-cities/ | url-status = live }}</ref> *{{flagicon|France}} [[Tréguier|Landreger]], [[Côtes-d'Armor]], [[Brittany (administrative region)|Brittany]], France{{citation needed|date=August 2020}} ==See also== * [[Metropolitan Cork]] * [[List of towns and villages in the Republic of Ireland|List of towns and villages in Ireland]] * [[Mallow (Parliament of Ireland constituency)]] * [[The Corkman]] * [[Davis College (Mallow)]] ==References== {{Reflist|2}} ==External links== {{Commons category}} {{Wikivoyage|Mallow}} *{{cite EB1911 |wstitle= Mallow (Ireland) |volume=17 |page=492 |short=x}} * [http://www.mallow.ie Official website] * [http://www.mallowtown.com Mallow town community website] * [http://www.mallow365.com Mallow Town Online Guide] * [https://sites.rootsweb.com/~irlmahs/mric.htm Record of RIC casualties from the Mallow area 1916-22] accessed 11 June 2021 {{County Cork}} {{Authority control}} [[Category:Mallow, County Cork| ]] [[Category:Towns and villages in County Cork]]'