Cork Heritage

1. Kieran’s A Year in the Life of Cork

Views of Cork City & region plus events over the last twelve months plus. The colour and present day shots are my own.

Evening Echo light installation, artist, Maddie Leach with National Sculpture Factory and Cork City Council, Shalom Park, Cork City, 31 December 2016

841a. Crowds beneath the printed Proclamation during the recent Easter Monday Commemorations 2016

View of southern gateway of Liscarroll Castle, March 2016, a recent subject of Kieran McCarthy's Our City, Our Town local history series in the Cork Independent

Sunset over Cork's north channel of the River Lee and Pope's Quay, 2 February 2016

Wintry landscapes, Ard na Gaoithe, Watergrasshill, Co. Cork, 1 January 2016

Christmas Candle, my house

Christmas on the Grand Parade, Bishop Lucey Park, 20 December 2015

North Cork Through Time by Kieran McCarthy and Dan Breen, December 2015

Tree, Canovee, River Lee valley, October 2015

Front cover of Kieran's McCarthy's "The Little Book of Cork", published in September 2015 by History Press, Ireland

66 AIB, South Mall, celebrating 100 years of a fantastic building, and also open for Cork Heritage Open Day, August 2015

Shandon Street Festival, Cork, 2015

Poster, Sweet Charity, 2-7 June 2015, Firkin Crane, Shandon, directed by Cllr Kieran McCarthy; production management by Yvonne Coughlan

Depiction of Shandon Castle, Cork, c.1603; subject of Kieran McCarthy's Our City, Our Town article, Cork Independent, late April 2015

St Patrick's Day, Cork, 17 March 2015

Spring light through the beautiful dome of 66 AIB South Mall; the building or the old Munster and Leinster Bank celebrates its centenary this year (1915-2015), 3 March 2015

Cork Coat of Arms, Custom House, Port of Cork

Castlemore, Crookstown, County Cork - the thirteenth century castle site was built originally by the Anglo Norman family of DeCogans; part of the series on Cork's medieval spaces Kieran McCarthy is writing about in Our City, Our Town in the Cork Independent, January 2015

Sunset over the South Channel of the Lee, with City Hall on the left, Cork City, 13 November 2014

The Last Leaves of The Marina, Cork, 11 November 2014

Dragon of Shandon Parade, Cork Community Art Link Project, 31 October 2014

Autumnal colours, President's Office Door, University College Cork, 10 October 2014

Cork City Sightseeing Bus Tour, October 2014

Dividing Lines, Where the past meets the present, Elizabeth Fort, Cork Heritage Open Day, 23 August 2014

Sunset at The Marina, Cork, 12 August 2014

Views into Cork Harbour from Camden Fort Meagher, Crosshaven, 4 August 2014

Sunset over St Anne's Church Shandon, Cork, 23 July 2014

Sun setting, Fitzgerald's Park, Cork, July 2014

Cork Summer Show, Curaheen, Saturday 16 June 2014

Cllr Kieran McCarthy's Make a Model Boat Project, The Lough, Cork, 1 June 2014, in association with the Ocean to City Maritime Festival

Heritage relationships, Grand Parade boardwalk with Holy Trinity Church and Parliament Bridge, April 2014

St Finbarr's Oratory, Gougane Barra, County Cork at twilight, 12 March 2014

Evening Echoes, River Lee from Daly's Bridge, Cork, February 2014

Christmas Candle, my house

Christmas in Cork City, December 2013

Kieran McCarthy and Dan Breen's new book "West Cork Through Time", title page, November 2013

Remembering the Great War, Remembering Cork's Fallen at the World War I Memorial, South Mall, Cork, 9 November 2013

Cork Docklands, Rebel Cork Concert, October 2013

Sunny days! Bishop Lucey Park, Cork, 21 May 2013

Grand Parade from old tax office, Sullivan's Quay, Cork

'The Calm After the Storm', River Lee along side Fitzgerald's Park, Cork, 17 January 2013

St Patrick's Street, Cork, c.1890

Christmas Lights switch on, St Patrick's Street, Cork, 16 November 2012

Making a Positive Future, Mural by Mayfield Community Arts, Bishop Lucey Park, Cork 22 June 2012

Cork fans, Cork-Kerry Football Semi Final, Pairc Ui Chaoimh, Cork, 10 June 2012

Sunny Days, Fitzgerald's Park, Cork, 24 May 2012

Laying a wreath for the Titanic, April 2012, off Cork harbour, on the site where the ship docked in April 1911

Joint fourth place, age 7-9, McCarthy's Design a Public Park Art Competition

McCarthy's Design a Public Park, Art Competition, February 2012

Cork Coat of Arms, Old Waterworks, Lifetime Lab, Lee Road, Cork, 23 January 2012

St. Patrick's Hill, Cork, Midnight, 1 January 2012

Christmas on the Parade, Cork, December 2011

Cork Pops Orchestra, Concert Hall, Cork City Hall, mid November 2011

The Dragon of Shandon emerges at the Old Cork Butter Exchange in association with Cork Community Art Link on 31 October 2011

Kieran McCarthy's historical exhibition, "Voices of the Lee Valley", Gougane Barra Pilgrimage Island, September 2011

Gougane Barra lake, Co. Cork, part of Kieran's fieldwork and new historical exhibition, 17 September 2011

607b. Gold key that opened Cork City Hall, 8 September 1936 by Eamonn DeValera, then President of the Executive Council, Irish Free State; the event happened 75 years ago this week

Cllr Kieran McCarthy presenting a historical walking tour of Blackpool, Cork City for National Heritage Week, picture by Aaron Scott, Late August 2011

Map of Cork City in 1801; Kieran's Heritage week this year focusses in on nineteenth century Cork in particularly the development of society and industry in the Shandon-Blackpool line on the northside of the city, check out facebook, Cork: Our City, Our Town for more details on Kieran's week, Late August 2011

New animation or story led tour at Blackrock Castle, Cork, 1.30pm & 3.30pm every day

Mosaic, The Geography of Place, Shandon Street, Cork, early August 2011

Crosshaven, Co. Cork, boating on www.corkharbourcruises.com, 21 July 2011

World War I exhibition material, Cork branch of the Western Front Association, Cork City Museum, Fitzgerald's Park, Cork, July 2011

Fort Camden, Crosshaven, Co. Cork, 2 July 2011; Built in the late eighteenth century, it is now owned by Cork County Council; bit by bit, the fort is being cleaned up by a volunteer group; the fort is open to the public during the summer months of 2011

Farrier competition, Cork Summer Show, Ballincollig, Co. Cork, 18 June 2011

'Where's Wally' world record breakers, for the most 'wallies' in attendance at one place, Fitzgerald's Park, Cork, as part of the World Street Performance Championships and Cork Midsummer Festival, 12 June 2011

Triskel event centre of Christ Church, Cork, June 2011

Post Queen Elizabeth II's visit to the English Market, Cork; photographing the unveiled plaque, 20 May 2011

Interior, English Market, Cork, one of the visit sites of Queen Elizabeth II, 20 May 2011

Cork International Choral Festival 2011, Fleischmann International Trophy Competition, Session two, South Korea entry, Concert Hall, Cork City Hall, 30 April 2011

Front cover image of Kieran McCarthy's new book, Royal Cork Institution, Pioneer of Education; the image is of the Antonio Canova cast 'Mother of Napoleon', insitu in the Crawford Municipal Art Gallery, Cork, see Kieran's publications for more!

Historical walking tour with Cllr Kieran McCarthy, St. Finbarr's Hospital, Cork, 16 April 2011

McCarthy's History in Action, Our Lady of Lourdes National School, Ballinlough, Cork, 10 April 2011

Crowd scene from a British Pathe still, during the Cork Motor Race 1936, topic of discussion in this month's Our City, Our Town in the Cork Independent (written by Kieran McCarthy), 31 March 2011

Sunset over River Lee at Blackrock and Tivoli Docks, 27 March 2011

Sunny Spring Landscapes, Atlantic Pond, Cork, March 2011

Street Performer, St. Patrick's Day, St. Patrick's Street, Cork, 17 March 2011

Photograph from Cork Corporation Diary 1934 of the Lee Baths, featuring in March 2011 in Kieran's Our City, Our Town Column in the Cork Independent

Concert Hall, Cork City Hall (opened in 1936) during the General Election count, 26 February 2011

Shaping nostalgia, view from South Mall, of nineteenth century lamp post of Anglesea Bridge, now called Parnell Bridge, Cork School of Music, Union Quay behind, 16 February 2011

Irish Industrial and Agricultural Fair, 1932, Carrigrohane Straight Road, Cork; part of Kieran's Our City, Our Town January articles in the Cork Independent

Selection of staff, early twentieth century, Beamish and Crawford Brewery Cork - Have you seen the proposed development for the site - I'm not happy with it, too large, intrusive, see www.kieranmccarthy.ie blog for more, search Beamish and Crawford