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irishfamilydetective @irishfamilydetective.ie · 29/10/2026

Yesterday's #WhereinCork was an image of Charlie Archer, Derry Fagan, & Donal Giltinan outside the Opera House in #Cork in 1937 where they were set to perform a radio programme. This of course was the old building 📷c.1883 (B&W via NLI) irishfamilydetective.ie/colourisation

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irishfamilydetective @irishfamilydetective.ie · 28/10/2026

#WhereinCork were these gentleman in 1937? Hint the building no longer stands after a fire gutted it, however, it has been rebuilt, albeit in a very different style #LoveCork #PureCork #CorkLike📸Echo

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irishfamilydetective @irishfamilydetective.ie · 27/10/2026

Born #Onthisday 1868 Annie Patterson, 'UCC’s first female music lecturer and the first woman in Ireland or Britain to be awarded a non-honorary doctorate in music' & composer of composing the choral work ‘The Bells of Shandon’ #Cork www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/ar...

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irishfamilydetective @irishfamilydetective.ie · 25/10/2026

Died #OnThisDay 1920 #Cork Lord Mayor & Irish Volunteer, Terence MacSwiney. He was arrested & court martialed but refused to recognise the authority of the British courts & went on hunger strike, dying 74 days later B&W📷Capuchin Archives irishfamilydetective.ie/post/cork-lo...

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irishfamilydetective @irishfamilydetective.ie · 23/10/2026

This week's #WhereinCork was Lota Lodge (Vienna Woods Hotel) Glanmire which was rebuilt in 1903 by owner Arthur Sharman Crawford after a devastating fire the previous year📸c.1911 #Cork City Libraries

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irishfamilydetective @irishfamilydetective.ie · 22/10/2026

Born #Onthisday 1930 Philomena Lynott 'She was a formidable woman. She played it hard, she played it tough – because she had learned that she'd have to, to survive.' 📷with Phil hotpress.com/music/rememb...

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irishfamilydetective @irishfamilydetective.ie · 21/10/2026

Tricky #WhereinCork today? Where would you find the door of this hotel with the year 1903 over the lintel? #LoveCork #PureCork #CorkLike

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irishfamilydetective @irishfamilydetective.ie · 21/10/2026

#Onthisday 1879 the Irish National Land League was founded in #Dublin by Charles Stewart Parnell, Michael Davitt, Andrew Kettle and others.

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irishfamilydetective @irishfamilydetective.ie · 20/10/2026

Died #OnThisDay 1999 Jack Lynch, Taoiseach & @OfficialCorkGAA dual star pictured in 1942 with the Liam McCarthy - more about the #FamilyHistory of #Cork man Lynch www.irishfamilydetective.ie/post/2017/08...

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irishfamilydetective @irishfamilydetective.ie · 19/10/2026

Timewarp of Albert Road #Cork then (c1900) & now (2024) #LoveCork #PureCork #CorkLike #TimewarpCork📸Cork Public Museum & Michael Lenihan

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irishfamilydetective @irishfamilydetective.ie · 19/10/2026

Died #Onthisday 1984 #Dubin born scientist Phyllis Clinch 'one of the greatest female inventors of her generation and world renowned for her innovative research into plant viruses' www.dib.ie/biography/cl...

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irishfamilydetective @irishfamilydetective.ie · 15/10/2026

Yesterday's #WhereinCork was the roof of the Metropole Hotel #Cork - this is another view from the roof, possibly from the 70s #LoveCork #PureCork #CorkLike #ThrowbackThursday📸Trains & Stuff

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irishfamilydetective @irishfamilydetective.ie · 15/10/2026

Died #Onthisday 1958 Lennox Robinson, Irish poet, playwright, and manager of the Abbey Theatre. He was born in Donnybrook near Douglas #Cork www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/ar...

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irishfamilydetective @irishfamilydetective.ie · 14/10/2026

#WhereinCork was the rooftop that this wedding party were posing for photographs in 1915? #LoveCork #PureCork #CorkLike📸Eleanor Russell

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irishfamilydetective @irishfamilydetective.ie · 14/10/2026

John Hogan, Irish neoclassical sculptor recognised as one of the foremost artists of 19th-century Ireland for his marble religious figures & public monuments was born in #Waterford #Onthisday 1800 & spent his formative years in #Cork📸The Dead Christ South Parish Cork

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irishfamilydetective @irishfamilydetective.ie · 13/10/2026

#Dingle #Kerry c.1900 National Library of Ireland's Lawrence Collection (NLI LROY4054)

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irishfamilydetective @irishfamilydetective.ie · 13/10/2026

Died #Onthisday 1960 in #Dublin Dr Eleanora Fleury. She was the first female medical graduate from the Royal University of Ireland, & also went on to become the first female member of the Royal College of Psychiatrists in 1894 www.dib.ie/biography/fl...

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irishfamilydetective @irishfamilydetective.ie · 12/10/2026

Timewarp of the Pavilion Cinema Patrick's Street #Cork then (1970s) & now (2021) #LoveCork #PureCork #CorkLike #TimewarpCork www.irishfamilydetective.ie/timewarp

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irishfamilydetective @irishfamilydetective.ie · 12/10/2026

Died #Onthisday 1969 Louise Gavan Duffy, educator, suffragist & nationalist who founded Scoil Bhríde, Ireland’s first Gaelscoil for girls. She was at the GPO during the #EasterRising & recalls that time in this interview from @RTEArchives rte.ie/archives/201...

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irishfamilydetective @irishfamilydetective.ie · 08/10/2026

Yesterday's #WhereinCork was Riverstown Glanmire from the film Disco Pig, this is Riverstown Cross with Mr Duggan and his cousins Joan & Rene Gleeson📸Kieran Duggan #LoveCork #PureCork #CorkLike #ThrowbackThursday

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irishfamilydetective @irishfamilydetective.ie · 08/10/2026

Born #Onthisday 1923 in #Dublin Kathleen Mills the 'Inchicore Invincible'. Her record of 15 All-Ireland Snr Medals is only surpassed by Rena Buckley of #Cork with 18 womensmuseumofireland.ie/blog/kathlee...

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irishfamilydetective @irishfamilydetective.ie · 07/10/2026

#Onthisday 2001 Disco Pigs had its premiere @CorkFilmFest - the movie includes some great shots of #Cork including this one but #WhereinCork was it? #LoveCork #PureCork #CorkLike

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irishfamilydetective @irishfamilydetective.ie · 06/10/2026

Born #Onthisday 1928 in #Kilkenny Maeve Kyle who paved the way for female athletes in a time when it was considered unseemly and almost dangerous for a woman to run, competing in the Melbourne Olympics in 1956 & was awarded an OBE in 2008 historickilkenny.com/maeve-kyle

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irishfamilydetective @irishfamilydetective.ie · 05/10/2026

Hybrid timewarp photo of Grand Parade #Cork then (1950s) and now #LoveCork #PureCork #CorkLike #TimewarpCork www.irishfamilydetective.ie/timewarp

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irishfamilydetective @irishfamilydetective.ie · 05/10/2026

Born #Onthisday 1848 in #Westmeath TP O'Connor, the only Irish Home Rule MP to be elected to Parliament from an English constituency. In 1888 he created The Star newspaper to fight for the thousands of homeless in the city cioj.org/t-p-oconnor/

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irishfamilydetective @irishfamilydetective.ie · 04/10/2026

#OnThisDay is the feast of St. Francis, this is Broad Lane Church in 1946 which was replaced by St. Francis Church Liberty St mid 20th century #LoveCork #PureCork #CorkLike📸Photos of #Cork

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irishfamilydetective @irishfamilydetective.ie · 03/10/2026

'Forest Scenic motor road under construction at Gougane Barra Forest, Co. #Cork. Prior to opening. Taken 1966' from duchas #LoveCork #PureCork #CorkLike

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irishfamilydetective @irishfamilydetective.ie · 03/10/2026

Died #Onthisday 1971 #Cork man Seán Ó Riada - the composer’s groundbreaking arrangements of Irish traditional music had a formative influence on an entire generation📸Ó Riada at his 1952 B. Mus. Graduation from UCC

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irishfamilydetective @irishfamilydetective.ie · 02/10/2026

Died #OnThisDay 1975 #Cork Sculptor Seamus Murphy, pictured here walking up from Dominick Street (I think the sign is O'Connell Square, late Mannix Street, but am open to correction) www.rte.ie/archives/201... #LoveCork #PureCork #CorkLike

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irishfamilydetective @irishfamilydetective.ie · 01/10/2026

Yesterday's #WhereinCork was Kealy’s Bar in Faulkner’s (now Opera) Lane, off Patrick Street, #Cork, 1959. It was a popular haunt for students, and printers who worked at the nearby Echo and Examiner building. I believe the old sign can be sign in Le Chateau

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irishfamilydetective @irishfamilydetective.ie · 01/10/2026

Born #Onthisday 1871 in #Skibbereen #Cork Marian (Mary) Barry, who after emigrating to the UK became became a leading light in the emerging Trade Union Movement as well as campaigning for women's rights tinyurl.com/4myxuysa

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irishfamilydetective @irishfamilydetective.ie · 30/09/2026

#WhereinCork would you have been able to get a pint of Beamish or Bovril! #LoveCork #PureCork #CorkLike📸Echo

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irishfamilydetective @irishfamilydetective.ie · 30/09/2026

Mise Éire premiered at the #Cork Film Festival #Onthisday 1959. The 1st feature-length film in Irish, it depicts events in Ireland leading up to, during, & immediately after the 1916 #EasterRising, using unrivalled archive with music by Seán O Riada share.google/5Wy1sAZOwulH...

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irishfamilydetective @irishfamilydetective.ie · 29/09/2026

St. Colman’s Cathedral, #Cobh, #Cork 1930 #LoveCork #PureCork #CorkLike📸Capuchin Archives

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irishfamilydetective @irishfamilydetective.ie · 29/09/2026

Died #Onthisday 1928 #Kildare born Fenian John Devoy, who was exiled to the US following a number of daring escapades. Here he founded Clann na Gael, engineered the escape of Fenian prisoners from Australia & many other deeds kildarelibraries.ie/ehistory/res...

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irishfamilydetective @irishfamilydetective.ie · 28/09/2026

Timewarp photo of #Bandon #Westcork then (c.1900) & now (2023) #LoveCork #CorkLike #TimewarpCork www.irishfamilydetective.ie/timewarp

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irishfamilydetective @irishfamilydetective.ie · 28/09/2026

Born #OnThisDay 1889 in #Limerick #Irishartist Sean Keating - painter of the iconic Men of the South - featured on #AtlasoftheIrishRevolution although my favourite is 'Economic Pressure'

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irishfamilydetective @irishfamilydetective.ie · 27/09/2026

#Onthisday 1920 severe damage was done to Cashs of Patrick's Street #Cork when a bomb was thrown at the store. A worse fate would occur 3 months later when the building & much of this side of the street was destroyed by fire set by Crown Forces📸NLI #LoveCork #PureCork #CorkLike

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irishfamilydetective @irishfamilydetective.ie · 25/09/2026

#OnThisDay is the feast day of St. Finbarr Patron Saint of #Cork This is St. Finbarr's Oratory #GouganeBarra in the 60s #LoveCork #PureCork #CorkLike #FlashbackFriday B&W📸Denis Dineen www.irishfamilydetective.ie/colourisation

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irishfamilydetective @irishfamilydetective.ie · 24/09/2026

Yesterday's #WhereinCork was an aerial photo of the Orthopaedic Hospital, Gurranabraher. The hospital opened in November 1955, this is another view via NLI #LoveCork #PureCork #CorkLike #ThrowbackThursday

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irishfamilydetective @irishfamilydetective.ie · 23/09/2026

#WhereinCork would you find these buildings which are pictured here c1955 #LoveCork #PureCork #CorkLike

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irishfamilydetective @irishfamilydetective.ie · 22/09/2026

#Onthisday 1920 volunteers from the Mid-Clare Battalion had ambushed a convoy of the R.I.C. at Rineen, near Miltown Malbay, killing 6 men. In retaliation, Crown Forces reeked havoc on the County #Clare towns of Lahinch and Ennistymon www.rte.ie/radio/docono...

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irishfamilydetective @irishfamilydetective.ie · 21/09/2026

Timewarp of a bustling Bridge Street #Cork then (in the late 1800s) & now (2023) #LoveCork #PureCork #CorkLike #TimewarpCork B&W📷Liam Kennedy irishfamilydetective.ie/timewarp

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irishfamilydetective @irishfamilydetective.ie · 21/09/2026

Born #OnThisDay 1881 in #Galway Éamonn Ceannt executed for his part in the #EasterRising aged 34 - this is him with his family c.1912 Back: William, Richard, Michael, Éamonn, Áine Brennan Front: James, Elizabeth Cummins, James Snr, Nell & Jack Casey #IrishRevolution

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irishfamilydetective @irishfamilydetective.ie · 18/09/2026

#Onthisday 1914, the Government of Ireland Act, also known as the Third Home Rule Bill, received royal assent, but was suspended on the same day by the Suspensory Act 1914 due to the outbreak of the #WW1

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irishfamilydetective @irishfamilydetective.ie · 17/09/2026

Yesterday's #WhereinCork was the Promenade in #Cobh - this is the location around the same time c.1900 with a splash of colour added📸NLI #LoveCork #PureCork #CorkLike www.irishfamilydetective.ie/colourisation

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irishfamilydetective @irishfamilydetective.ie · 17/09/2026

Died #Onthisday 1970 Nora Wallace who with her sister Sheila ran a small in the shadow of St. Augustine’s Church, in the centre of #Cork City, central to Volunteer activities during the #IrishWarofIndependence as were the sisters rte.ie/culture/2020...

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irishfamilydetective @irishfamilydetective.ie · 16/09/2026

#WhereinCork (county) were the Miller sisters, pictured here in 1903 #LoveCork #PureCork #CorkLike📸 Eleanor Russell

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