Throwback Thursday: A family connection, and a walk on Oliver Plunkett St
Declan Hourihan has written to us, seeking information on a family link highlighted in a Throwback Thursday column…
Throwback Thursday: Memories of when Cork’s Everyman was a popular cinema
We recently had a press release from The Everyman, asking if we knew that this distinguished late Victorian…
Throwback Thursday: Was this the greatest ever pub in Cork city?
We have another identification of an extra in the 1954 film Moby Dick, after photos featured in Throwback…
Throwback Thursday: A stroll through the shops of my town in 1950s
Do we really believe that we live in an age of incredible progress? That our parents and grandparents…
John Arnold: Fond memories of Jim… who answered SOS when I was born
Now in my 70th year, every now and then I try to remember what I first remember! That…
Throwback Thursday: Remembering Cork’s caterers on railways
Do you remember that Micheál Kenefick reminisced last week in Throwback Thursday about the great days of dining…
Cork centenarian: ‘I was a pupil at North Mon with Jack Lynch’
When you were born while the Irish Civil War was still raging, and you went to school at…
Throwback Thursday: Memories of Kent station in bygone days…and the man who missed seeing the Beatles
This writer was giving a talk in Nenagh, Co Tipperary, last week (on fairy forts, in case you…
‘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 Cork
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…