Qualla: Douglas https://qualla.com/douglas-cork 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/douglas-cork-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Douglas https://qualla.com/douglas-cork Douglas: Introduction https://qualla.com/douglas-cork/ Photo credit Maximilian Bühn, CC BY-SA 4.0. Three of the most recognisable Irish faces of the 21st century came out of Douglas: Cillian Murphy, Jack Gleeson, and Ronan O'Gara. One stars in Christopher Nolan films. One played King Joffrey on Game of Thrones. One won two Heineken Cups with Munster and now coaches in La Rochelle. None of that is what Douglas advertises about itself, but it is the kind of suburb that quietly produces this density of talent and then watches the local rugby team take it in stride. Douglas is a southern district of Cork city, four kilometres from Kent Station, woven through with the N40 ring road and the long memory of woollen mills that closed in the 1970s.

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/4/p/douglas-cork-wp/gc4p-douglas-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Douglas: Nemo and the Saturday Religion https://qualla.com/douglas-cork/ Photo credit Hywel Williams, CC BY-SA 2.0. Nemo Rangers GAA was historically associated with Turners Cross, but the club moved to the Trabeg area of Douglas in the 1990s and never looked back. Nemo are one of the most successful Gaelic football clubs in Ireland's history. Douglas GAA, the other club, handles the hurling a...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/4/p/douglas-cork-wp/gc4p-douglas-nemo-and-the-saturday-religion.mp3 0:06 2 full Douglas: A Suburb of Names You Recognise https://qualla.com/douglas-cork/ Photo credit Tim Cornbill, CC BY-SA 2.0. Cillian Murphy, born and raised in Douglas, made his name in Peaky Blinders and then in Christopher Nolan's films. Jack Gleeson, also from Douglas, was thirteen when he was cast as Joffrey Baratheon in Game of Thrones - the antagonist millions of viewers love to hate. Ronan O'Gar...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/4/p/douglas-cork-wp/gc4p-douglas-a-suburb-of-names-you-recognise.mp3 0:06 3 full Douglas: The N40 and the Stranded Direction https://qualla.com/douglas-cork/ Photo credit Robert Ashby, CC BY-SA 2.0. The N40 - Cork's southern ring road - passes through Douglas, and the local quirk of the interchange is the kind of thing that gets repeated at every Douglas dinner party. You cannot join the N40 at Douglas to travel east. Westbound traffic can't exit at Douglas either, having to...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/4/p/douglas-cork-wp/gc4p-douglas-the-n40-and-the-stranded-direction.mp3 0:06 4 full Douglas: The Mills That Made It https://qualla.com/douglas-cork/ Photo credit Michael O'Sheil, CC BY-SA 4.0. Douglas grew around water and wool. St Patrick's Woollen Mills, which closed in the 1970s, was the largest local employer for generations. The mills are gone but their footprint shapes the modern village - the housing patterns, the placement of the rugby club, the streets that ra...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/4/p/douglas-cork-wp/gc4p-douglas-the-mills-that-made-it.mp3 0:06 5 full Douglas: Village Centre and Shopping Centre https://qualla.com/douglas-cork/ Photo credit Hywel Williams, CC BY-SA 2.0. Douglas calls itself a village despite being unmistakably a suburb. The Douglas Village Shopping Centre opened in the 1970s and has been the social and commercial anchor since - in 2019 a fire kept it closed for months and the absence was noticed across the city. The village core...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/4/p/douglas-cork-wp/gc4p-douglas-village-centre-and-shopping-centre.mp3 0:06 6 full