![]() ![]() Nothing was more lovely or more wondrous than Cork itself, with its magnificent array of cinemas: the Pavilion, the Savoy, the Palace, the Ritz, the Lee, and Hadji Bey’s Turkish Delight factory. Mr Deeds Goes to Town. No experience in my whole childhood, and no memory, has remained as deeply etched as these escapes to the paradise that was Cork. ![]() “Twice a year perhaps, on Saturday afternoons, there was going to Cork to the pictures”, writes William Trevor in Excursions in the Real World , “Clarke Gable and Myrna Loy in Too Hot to Handle. From the John James collection, a postcard of the Metropole Hotel on MacCurtain Street in Cork (formerly King Street), a Metropole Hotel publication. ![]() For more on postcards and the Cork postcards project, go to the ‘ Postcards of Cork‘ section of the listing of blog-post subject categories on the sidebar. What follows is a few excerpts from Love from Cork, some cards, a section from the book’s introduction, and a flavour of the literary extracts. Also included are writers such as James Joyce – who set a significant episode of Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man in Cork city – Benedict Kiely, and Robert Lloyd Praeger.Īlthough a number of publications have featured picture postcards of Cork, especially the city, there has never been a comprehensive production on the postcards of Cork, covering the city and county, from Allihies to Youghal and from Clonakilty to Charleville, deploying contemporary editorial treatment of the constituent elements. ![]()
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