Old Cork Photos

[fed up]

Sheep going over Patrick's Bridge in 1905. Photo in in the American Library of Congress Collection, colourised by me (John Finn)

(I found it on FB just now)

#620,

 

[Corks finest]

The man with 20/20 vision when looking in the rear view mirror. I'm writing to the Council demanding why they've removed all the horse troughs. You never know.....

Sone of them went missing ( council employees)

 

[Swanforthelough]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1587206709881208833

 

[casúr]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1589341150334586882

 

[Hank Scorpio]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1591881856408068096

 

[markyboy]

 

[Harry Boyle]

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Long defunct now and the Cork spiced beef that they lavished into their bellies a thing of the past.

 

[Stromovka]

Rather than put this in a new thread, and I don't have a photo of it, as I was passing it in the car today.

Moving slowly in traffic on Grattan Street I noticed, across the road from Edel House, that there was a grey stone plaque in the wall of the 1st in this row of houses (? old Corpo houses). The writing was too small to make out what it said or commemorated. Does anyone know?

I'm 90% sure it's where the red arrow is pointing but I might have been dozy and it may be the house where the black arrow is pointing.

 

[Stromovka]

History Trail, Middle Parish Area | Cork Heritage

Its a plaque for Patrick Hanley..the republican* after which that row of houses are named.

Very good middle parish heritage website

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* a proper republican..not like the modern day SF/IRA criminal scumbags

Cheers for that. I couldn't read it but I guessed it was as gaeilge.

Edited to say thanks for the link also. Very interesting info on an old part of the city.

 

[Heraldo]

History Trail, Middle Parish Area | Cork Heritage

Its a plaque for Patrick Hanley..the republican* after which that row of houses are named.

Very good middle parish heritage website

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* a proper republican..not like the modern day SF/IRA criminal scumbags

Thanks for the link, will check it out

The middle parish is also the marsh area of the city, the inhabitants are known as “marshies”
It is one of the oldest parts of the city.

My grandfather was from around the grattan street area.