‘The manager stared at the wild display in horror and put a stop to jitterbugging’
Paddy O’Brien, that great founder of the over 60s talent contests, wrote in response to last week’s pages…
After 68 years performing… I would do it all again
The showband era has long had a place in the hearts of Cork people – and Art Supple…
Memories of the showband era in CorkÂ
You know, it was drawn rather forcibly to my attention the other day that the legendary showband era…
‘Connie Dodgers’ took the biscuit in Cork…
It might not be so now, but Lent was a very serious event in the Ireland of days…
Meet the collectors who have amassed 100,000 match programmes, coins and thimbles
Mitchelstown native David O’Donoghue might be Ireland’s biggest penny pincher. Luckily, for the effervescent history and English teacher,…
Golden memories of a popular Cork band
Well, that story on the Ardmanning Bar last week in Throwback Thursday really got a lot of response…
Taking a stroll down memory lane
My Dad, Seamus White, and his lifelong friend and fellow barman, Tony O’Sullivan, had both worked in a…
Life at Cork’s now obsolete Queen’s Place
Consisting of four elegant town houses fronting the south channel of the River Lee, Queen’s Place was built…
My happy childhood in city’s Moores Hotel
Throwback Thursday reader Declan Groeger has written concerning a former Cork city landmark, Moores Hotel on Morrison’s Island.…