Qualla: Ballintemple https://qualla.com/ballintemple en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:11 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/4/p/ballintemple-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Ballintemple https://qualla.com/ballintemple Ballintemple: Introduction https://qualla.com/ballintemple/ Photo credit Lewis Glucksman Gallery, CC BY-SA 4.0. George Boole walked three miles to work in a rainstorm, gave his lecture in soaked clothes, and was dead within weeks. The man who invented Boolean algebra - the logic that runs every computer on Earth - died of pneumonia in a quiet Cork suburb called Ballintemple in December 1864. He had been a professor at University College Cork; the walk between his home and the university was a routine he kept even when the weather argued otherwise. Today the streets he crossed are lined with terraced houses and the buses of the 202 route, but Ballintemple's curious habit of attracting consequential lives reaches further back than Boole, and further forward.

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/4/p/ballintemple-wp/gc4p-ballintemple-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Ballintemple: A Hill With the Wrong Name https://qualla.com/ballintemple/ Photo credit Dbee01, CC BY-SA 4.0. Temple Hill and Churchyard Lane took their names from a graveyard at the top of the hill that locals once believed had belonged to the Knights Templar. Modern historians say no - the association is incorrect. The 'temple' in Ballintemple more likely refers to land belonging to th...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/4/p/ballintemple-wp/gc4p-ballintemple-a-hill-with-the-wrong-name.mp3 0:06 2 full Ballintemple: Chased for a Grave Robber https://qualla.com/ballintemple/ Photo credit Flickr member Charlie cravero, CC BY 2.0. In the early 1800s the folklorist and antiquary Thomas Crofton Croker climbed Temple Hill to survey the graveyard. He took down a marker for a Lieutenant Henry Richard Temple, who had died alongside his young wife while travelling from the Caribbean to England via Ireland. He not...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/4/p/ballintemple-wp/gc4p-ballintemple-chased-for-a-grave-robber.mp3 0:06 3 full Ballintemple: Departures from Dundanion https://qualla.com/ballintemple/ Photo credit The Speckled Bird, CC BY-SA 4.0. Down by the River Lee, near where Páirc Uí Chaoimh stadium now stands, the ruins of Dundanion Castle keep their own secret. William Penn - founder of Pennsylvania - is said to have departed from here in 1682 on his journey to the American colonies. Some decades earlier, Sir Walte...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/4/p/ballintemple-wp/gc4p-ballintemple-departures-from-dundanion.mp3 0:06 4 full Ballintemple: Stadium Saturdays and Quiet Streets https://qualla.com/ballintemple/ Photo credit Robert Ashby, CC BY-SA 2.0. Walk Blackrock Road today and Ballintemple feels like what it is - a comfortable inner suburb of Cork, two pubs called The Venue and The Temple Inn (locally known as Longboats), a post office, small shops. Then Páirc Uí Rinn or Páirc Uí Chaoimh hosts a hurling match and the stree...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/4/p/ballintemple-wp/gc4p-ballintemple-stadium-saturdays-and-quiet-streets.mp3 0:06 5 full Ballintemple: A Suburb of Consequential Lives https://qualla.com/ballintemple/ Photo credit Mucklagh, CC BY 4.0. Boole is the most famous of Ballintemple's residents, but the list is unusual for any small district. Mary Elmes, the humanitarian dubbed the Irish Oskar Schindler, who saved hundreds of Jewish children from Vichy France, grew up here. Ethel Voynich, the novelist whose The Gadfly...

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