Cork City Challenge Ltd., Albert Quay House, Albert Quay, Cork.
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Albert Quay was named for Prince Albert, the husband of Queen Victoria. Victoria and Albert visited Cork city on 3 August 1849. The quay has been renamed MacSwiney Quay in honour of Terence MacSwiney, a former Lord Mayor of Cork, who died after a prolonged hunger strike in Brixton Prison in 1920 during the War of Independence. Victoria and Albert had arrived at Cove on 2 August 1849 on board the royal yacht named, appropriately enough, The Victoria and Albert. Cove, as it was then called, was renamed Queenstown in honour of the visit.