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'''Country''' : Ireland [[File:Ireland.jpg|60 px|right]]<br><br><br><br> | |||
'''County''' : [[Cork (county)|Cork]][[File:Cork.county.jpg|60 px|right]]<br><br><br><br> | |||
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Or, on waves of the sea a ship of three masts in full sail proper between two towers gules upon rocks also proper each tower surmounted by a flag argent charged with a saltire of the third with the motto STATIO BENE FIDA CARINIS. | |- | ||
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| Or, on waves of the sea a ship of three masts in full sail proper between two towers gules upon rocks also proper each tower surmounted by a flag argent charged with a saltire of the third with the motto STATIO BENE FIDA CARINIS. | |||
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The motto can be translated as “A trustworthy harbour for ships” and is adapted from Book II of Virgil’s Aeniad. In the original it talks of the island of Tenedos being an untrustworthy harbour (statio male fida carinis), but the classically minded city fathers of Cork altered it to form a fitting accompaniment to the arms. | The motto can be translated as “A trustworthy harbour for ships” and is adapted from Book II of Virgil’s Aeniad. In the original it talks of the island of Tenedos being an untrustworthy harbour (statio male fida carinis), but the classically minded city fathers of Cork altered it to form a fitting accompaniment to the arms. | ||
===Image gallery=== | |||
<gallery widths=250px heights=200px perrow=0> | |||
File:corkz1.jpg|alt=Arms (crest) of Cork|Seal from around 1700 | |||
File:cork.haguk.jpg|alt=Arms (crest) of Cork|The arms in the [[Coffee Hag albums]] +/- 1934 | |||
File:cork.jj.jpg|alt=Arms (crest) of Cork|The arms on a postcard, +/- 1905 | |||
File:cork2.jpg|alt=Arms (crest) of Cork|The arms used in the city | |||
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'''[[Literature]]''': Ewe, 1972, information from Laurence Jones | '''[[Literature]]''': Ewe, 1972, information from Laurence Jones | ||