Monthly Archives: September 2010

Kieran’s Comments, Beamish & Crawford Site, Cork City Council Meeting, 13 September 2010

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Cork City Council Meeting, 13 September 2010

Kieran’s Comments

Re: The Redevelopment of Beamish & Crawford Site

Lord Mayor,

I’m very concerned about the development of the Beamish and Crawford site – this site has enormous cultural and tourism potential.

Way back in the early 1980s, this Council made the great decision to create Beamish Lucey Park – providing a space to showcase the city’s medieval past in terms of the incorporation of the foundations of the town wall and highlighting the city’s charter in 1185 through the sculptured eight swans on the fountain , sculptural pieces by Seamus Murphy were added in as well as the old Cornmarket Gates that once stood in the backyard of City Hall.

The Beamish & Crawford can be a similar cultural project. This is Where Cork Began.

 

Possibly this is where Dún Corcaighe, the Viking fort, which was attacked in 848 AD by an Irish chieftain, once stood. Recent excavations on the Grand Parade City Car park site revealed that the people living in the 1100s actually moved the river channel that ran through the site to allow for timber housing and to create the present south channel in the area.

In one pit dug by archaeologists they found a wooden quayside dating to 1160 and in another found the remains of four houses, each demolished to make way for the next one over the space of 50 years between 1100-1150 AD. This is a place of tradition, of continuity, change and legacy, of ambition and determination, engineering ingenuity, survival and experimentation.

I’m always very disappointed when such heritage is discovered and for the most part is covered over. It appears that the city’s civic history is dismissed more often than not. – for example Queen’s Castle, the tower shown in our Coat of Arms, was excavated and encased in concrete in 1996 and still lies under Castle Street;

You had the  Crosses Green Apartment Complex, the remains of a Dominican Friary were discovered in 1993 but no remains were incorporated; the 60m of Town wall found in Kyrl’s Quay in 1993, 10 metres of which was kept and despite being a national monument is now a dumping ground under the ramp leading up into the car park.

I’m reminded at this juncture if you go to their places like Galway, they have successfully incorporated the remnants of their town wall into Eyre Square Shopping Centre, they have also incorporated their built heritage into Eyre Square.

There seems to be a sense to certain developers in this city that heritage is a hindrance  – that we citizens want to live a place that looks the same as some other cities in the world.

I honestly believe we need a new framework for the harnessing of our built heritage  – we need new ideas.

I feel that the heritage frameworks that have in place are not good enough for a city that has a European Capital of Culture and a Lonely Planet accolade under our belts.

All of us when we go on holidays go straight for cultural heritage centres. Despite having structures such as the Lifetime Lab or Blackrock Castle, there is no venue in the city centre that tells the story of Cork’s evolution, revealing the city’s sense of place.

We normally don’t even have Cork flags flying usually in the city centre. I would argue that Cork’s civicness, its memories and nostalgia are not celebrated within the landscape.

Cork is the only settlement in Ireland that has experienced every phase of urban growth. The Beamish & Crawford Site dates back at least 1200 years going through phases such as Viking settlement, Anglo Norman settlement and industrial growth.

This site provides an enormous opportunity to pull a focus back on South Main Street which also date back 1200 years but in our time is rotting away with filthy laneways and dereliction becoming prevalent in a matter of time.

The proper redevelopment of this site into a cultural tourism hub would also help in pulling focus on the new Christ Church development, Meitheal Mara river project and the South Parish Local Area Plan.

I wish to call on the Council to work closely with potential developers. I think with this site it is not good enough to have the attitude “we’ll see what the developer and its architects come up with”.

I welcome the call to open up the thinking on the potential site to the general public. Indeed, part of the new thinking would fit nicely into the aims of the City Council’s  Heritage Plan, its new Parks strategy and the new Arts Strategy.

In an age of the recession, there’s an opportunity through the Beamish and Crawford site to foster our tourism and cultural sector which I feel has not been adequately opened up. There is an enormous cultural and economic opportunity to be missed if the development of this site is messed up.

 

For more on Cork’s heritage, check out my heritage website www.corkheritage.ie

Walled Town of Cork, c.1575 from the Pacata Hibernia Map, Beamish and Crawford site circled

Kieran’s Comments, Blackpool Local Area Plan, Cork City Council Meeting, 13 September 2010

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Cork City Council Meeting, 13 September 2010

Kieran’s Comments in the Council Chamber

Draft Blackpool Local Area Action Plan

 

Lord Mayor,

I enjoyed the recent planning tour of Blackpool. However, I think I came back even more disillusioned and even disappointed with the lack of strategies coming forward from our planning unit.

On one level, the document to be approved is a good attempt at renewing the heart of Blackpool village, But I was disappointed to hear from our planning officials that because of the economic climate, perhaps only 10 per cent of the plan would probably be implemented. That means 90% failure.

Now I don’t represent the people of Blackpool but to hear that only 10 % of the plan may be implemented should send alarm bells off. Is this council creating false promises to its citizens? We have already sent the South Parish Local Area Plan through and we will have the Mahon Local area plan go through shortly.

Do we need to change our strategies to maximise our local area Development plans. Should they be more people based, development of our communities more so than urban infrastructure? Is our planning structure strong enough to cope with what is happening in Blackpool?

Blackpool was at one stage was a major industrial hub with distilleries, tanneries providing enormous employment, community structures, a strong and confident community.  It is because of its past that Blackpool has that strong sense of place and pride amongst its residents.

The new bypass on one hand in recent years was needed but Blackpool seemed to be left to die by many stakeholders. The development plan talks about an architectural conservation area which is very true if you look at the fine Maddens buildings opened by the Mayor Paul Madden in 1886, the first attempt by this council to clear some of the slums in the immediate area and create a new core in Blackpool.

However, east of here to Leitrim Street, you have a rotting core, and rot is the best way to describe it. The rot is poisoning the spirit of everything that Blackpool was, is and will be.  Eyesores dragging down the aesthetics of a place, the sense of place and identity – decent Cork citizens living in slum like areas.

Boarded up windows versus no boarded up windows

Falling gutters, rusted shoots, trees and Ivy growing through windows

Large scale concrete rotting urban spaces

The Kiln River, as a dumping ground

There seems to be a lack of strategy and no real will to tackle the property owners.

Way back in 1921, there were also some hard handed property owners, who sat on their property on the burnt out Patrick Street not willing to develop despite a compensation package in place and the Council had to take some of them to court to get them moving.

We still have such property owners today with no sense of civic responsibility waiting for years for property prices to go even higher, not even realising that it is they and their derelict buildings that keep property prices low. They are indeed poisoning the area.

At this juncture as well, I wish to thank those businesses that make an effort – in particular I was taken by the two little restaurants on Leitrim Street, probably not making big bucks, struggling, strained, paying their taxes.

A city on top of its game has to remain on top of its game – remain competitive, come up with new ideas – need to work more with stakeholders – challenge, empower the people of the city to move forward –

Ho we do we get people back living in the city?

We need to remain competitive – The city needs to fight for its share,

In a time of recession, we need to work harder and longer

and unfortunately this document does not do this.

 

Blackpool as seen from Google Earth

Kieran’s Question and Motions, Cork City Council Meeting, 12 September 2010

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Question:

To ask the City manager about the status of repair work on St. Patrick’s Bridge (Cllr Kieran McCarthy)

(ans: to be fixed by late September)

 

Motions:

To get a report from the Director of Services on the completion status of the Willow Lawn riverside walk (Cllr K McCarthy)

That in 2011 Cork City Council celebrate the 75th anniversary of the opening of the current City Hall building (Cllr K McCarthy)

 

Batique, Cork City Council Chamber, Cork City Hall

Kieran’s Our City, Our Town, 9 September 2010

Cork History, Uncategorized

556a. Kerrypike Road, memorial on left

Kieran’s Our City, Our Town– 9 September 2010

In the Footsteps of St. Finbarre (Part 227)

A Politics of Remembering

 

 “Every week that passes make the prospect of a satisfactory settlement more difficult, and anger, instead of being appeased, appears to grow and become more acute. This desperate situation is rendered all the more deplorable by the fact that no light appears on the horizon to indicate the coming of a brighter day” (Cork Examiner, Thursday, 24 March, 1921).

The Cork Examiner gives just one lens to explore the Irish War of Independence. Through the newspaper, one cannot help seeing terms such as instability, struggle, tragedy, sacrifice, devotion, reverence, loss, truth, destruction, justice, anger, hurt, national identity, the call for peace all making headlines. However, the researcher also has to be careful of this source. It did report what happened and on occasion one can see the relevant journalist also did not have or perhaps was not given the full story or just one side of the story was presented. However, as noted last week, reading the newspapers at the time do give an insight into a frightening world but also a world where you begin to question right and wrong.

From the perspective of 2010, it’s easy to go with just one side of the story of the Ballycannon experience. It is perhaps too easy to bypass a number of levels of remembering – the eye witness accounts, the Irish government perspective that declared its own independence, the nature of the proclaimed war against Britain, the story of the young Ballycannon people and their role as Volunteers in Guerilla warfare, the story of the British soldier whose job was to track down these young men, apprehend them or kill them, the negotiation that went on in the yard at the Kerrypike farmstead before the six Volunteers were shot, the story of the persons who gave the orders to fire on them, the coroner’s report, the perspective of the families left behind on the deceased side (some still living on Blarney Street), the story of the making of the memorial and its unveiling in 1945 to the story of the current O’Regan family who maintain the memorial in Kerrypike. In truth, each of the above contested levels of remembering require multiple articles if one is digging for the truth of the event.

However, for me the Ballycannon killings of 23 March 1921 seem to represent a tragedy. The memories of the event have spread through the decades through continuous telling of the killing of the six young men. The memorial was also part of a number of memorials invested in by the Irish government and smaller groups to create a memory of the War of Independence, a memory of the foundation of the Irish Free State. Even with that, there is a politics to what is remembered and what memories are invested in. I think what strikes me is how complex the politics of remembering is and how complex its construction is especially in light of the Irish War of Independence. How it is difficult to gauge the mentality of multiple sides of the argument without offending those who have a vested interest in the narrative and memory of the six young men killed.

The Ballycannon tragedy must also be viewed in the broader context of what was happening elsewhere. During the eight months leading up until the Truce of July 1921, there was a spiralling of the death toll in the conflict, with 1,000 people including the RIC police, British military, IRA volunteers and civilians, being killed in the months between January and July 1921 alone. This represents about 70% of the total casualties for the entire three-year conflict. In addition, 4,500 IRA personnel (or suspected sympathisers) were interned in this time. In the middle of this violence, the Dáil formally declared war on Britain in March 1921. Between 1 November 1920 and 7 June 1921 twenty four men were executed by the British. On 19 March 1921, four days before the Kerrypike incident Tom Barry’s 100-strong West Cork IRA unit fought a large-scale action against 1,200 British troops – the Crossbarry Ambush. Barry’s men narrowly avoided being trapped by converging British columns and inflicted between ten and thirty killed on the British side. About 100 Irish Republican Army (IRA) volunteers escaped an attempt by over 1,300 British forces to encircle them. During the hour-long battle three to six IRA volunteers were killed.

However, with all this in mind, standing at the Ballycannon memorial on a recent sunny Sunday evening I had the newspaper accounts in my hand and a number of books on eyewitness accounts. I sat, paused and reflected on these times. At that point in time, the memorial for me became a place which engendered a feeling of loss somewhere in me for the past of the region. In truth, for me, the memorial seemed to try to induce me to remember and confront the tragic memories represented by the memorial. It is indeed a place where the history of Ireland is played out over and over again to those who stop to find out about the narrative. How Ireland comes to terms with such tragedies seems to boil down to time and healing and what should one remember and forget in moving Ireland’s identity forward.

To be continued…

 

Captions:

556a. Kerrypike Road to Cork, Ballycannon memorial on left (picture: Kieran McCarthy, August 2010)

556b. Unveiling of Ballycannon memorial in 1945 (source: Cork City Library)

 

556b. Unveiling of Ballycannon Memorial in 1945

Deputy Lord Mayor, Launch of Irish Patchwork Society Exhibition, 4 September 2010

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Dr. Barry O'Connor, registrar, CIT, Laura Wazilowski, US Quilt work lecturer & Cllr Kieran McCarthy at the launch of the Irish Quilt work exhibition at Cork Institute of Technology, 4 September 2010

Irish Patchwork Society Exhibition,

Cork Institute of Technology Opening, 4 September 2010

Deputising for the Lord Mayor, Cllr Kieran McCarthy

 

Kieran’s Speech – “Journeys”

 

Madame Chairperson, ladies and gentlemen, quest lecturer Laura Wazilowski

On behalf of the Lord Mayor, many thanks for the invitation to come and visit and chat to you this afternoon.

 

I have heard it said that there are three people in this life, those people who make it happene, those people who watch it happen and those people who ask what happened. I am delighted to be on this occasion to be associated with the Irish Patchwork Society Exhibition, a society who has worked hard to make it happen.

 

 

They say that art has the power to stop, impress, make one question, wonder, dream, remember, be disturbed, explore and not forget – a whole series of emotions – all of which echo throughout the quilt works here this afternoon.

 

Walking around one can see the amount of work that has been put in the shapes, patterns and colours of the works on display; What is very evident is the amount of planning, design work, thought, emotion and building work that has gone into these works of art.

 

While these images speak volumes to the quilt lover, the lavish use of colour give the exhibitor’s work a much broader appeal. Anyone who appreciates design cannot but be drawn in – taken on a journey.

 

 

Millennium Hall:

 

Many years ago, I attended an exhibition on quilts with the theme of Cork in the Millennium Hall, City Hall and I snapped a great quiltwork on a series of Cork’s buildings, which I still show in my slide shows on the history of the city.

 

For me that piece of work opened my own imagination to the importance of  being creative to expand our ways of seeing-  our own views of the world and in that context the rich buildings that we have in Cork who all have their own lines, contours and outward expression, memories and meanings.

 

These quilts before us also create new ways of making, expressing and seeing. Each has their own view; they have their own meanings and memories to those who created them and to those who will view them.  Perhaps for the artist they express feelings of confidence, express creativity, and show the importance of the power of making.

 

Many years, I was involved in a project called the Knitting Map in St Luke’s Church in Montenotte, whereby I interviewed about 70 of its participants for a book on their life’s stories.

 

There were a number of interesting observations that came out of that project that perhaps are apt to mention here today.

 

 

The Knitting Map experience:

 

During the many days, I spent chatting to the women and men involved, the chat and banter could be heard in every room; in every corner, the culture of Cork, the problems of the world, the meaning of life were all in a sense being discussed.

 

There were people who came because making was a kind of loving meditation.

 

There were people for whom making something was once about having very little, and the clothing of a family an ordinary and urgent necessity.

 

There were people who came to make something that helped them to find their way out of depression, grief and abuse.

 

There were people who came to make as an act of solidarity with others of this city.

 

These were people who came to make not for the process of making, but for the laughter.

 

These were people who came who told the funniest of stories to those who made me choke back my own tears, and wonder at my life.

 

There were people who came and astonished me with their sheer extraordinary force of life, who walked into The Knitting Map space on a weekly basis with a sense of ownership.

 

These were people who knitted complexities of cables and honeycombs and lattices without even looking down.

 

In the afternoons, and mornings of my fieldwork they sat and knitted, and began to talk, everything slowed down. There was time to talk, gossip, rant, muse and long.

 

 

One could not but admire their determination, belief and the warmth of their spirit in such a project.

 

 

I didn’t not know what to expect today. But I reckon, the same army of like minded makers are here today.   You are all were waiting for the off, like soldiers ready for battle or a revolution.

 

 

This project not only gives the Cork person a voice but also others from other parts of Ireland and wider parts of the world, who have been enchanted by quilt making experience. It is very seldom in any city that such a broad community would come together and engage with each other on such a personal level.

 

This week you will all wait for the viewer, you will sit quietly as in an art gallery, you will reflect on where you’re at in life, you will laugh, rant and then laugh and rant some more. You will re-imagine worlds of other quilters, you will wonder and move forwards confidently and positively this week.

 

Ladies and gentlemen, in this world, we need more of those traits of confidence, solidarity, freedom to express oneself, determination, force of life – and we need to mass produce these qualities.

 

Those who exhibit here this week, may you always have an open mind to ideas, people and places and that your talent will grow with each work.

I wish you all the best of luck this week and moving forward into the future.

 

Go raibh maith agaibh.

 

Cork's architecture in quilt work

 

Quilt works at the Irish Quilt Work Exhibition, CIT, 4 September 2010

 Irish Quilt work Exhibition, CIT, 4 September 2010

Deputy Lord Mayor, UN Wreath Laying at Fitzgerald’s Park, 4 Sepetmber 2010

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Paddy Hayes, Kieran McCarthy & Sonnie Cotter at the UN memorial at Fitgerald's Park, 4 9 10

Irish United Nations Veterans Association, Post 5 wreath-laying

Fitzgerald’s Park, Cork

Deputising for the Lord Mayor, Cllr. Kieran McCarthy

 Speech

Brigadier General, chairman, veterans, ladies and gentlemen. On behalf of the Lord Mayor, many thanks for the invitation to this important event today.

As a child growing up in the 80’s I loved the A-team, they were defenders of everything good and were my heros for many years. the A-team fuelled my imagination – The principal characters all had valuable traits – Hannibal for his ideas, BA for his strength, Murdock for his quirkyness and Face for acquiring the missions and finance

For many of us, keepers of the peace, defenders of human rights are Hollywood heros or Hollywood icons – we see the stories through the medium of television or film.

However, as my own life’s journey progressed I was brought to education and community programmes and I discovered new heros of the uncelebrated kind – those that stand up for their local community.

But in every corner of the world there are heros.

There is the unsung hero not living in an action programme or action movie but living in very real life situations striving forward, pushing forward inch by inch, making a difference – providing a sense of belief and confidence in campaigning for rights and a better world and future.

 

HEROS

Society needs heros, defenders,

it needs leaders who will justly rule and provide as many opportunities for development as possible

Heroes are special – they are if you break down the letters to reflect ideas – you get words like h for honourable – they stand for something, some important value of human nature.

E is for energy – their energy is usually enormous – charged with ambition, courage and dedication to defend a cause, to make a difference.

R is for the realism that heros debate, write and champion.

Perhaps O is the onus presented to us to listen, empatise and do our part to support a just hero

 

This memorial in our beautiful Fitzgerald’s Park has many meanings –

There is a power in a sense of place. This memorial is rooted in Cork’s cultural history, in tradition, in continuity, change and legacy; this memorial marks a place of direction and experiment, of dialogue, of ambition and determination, experiences and learning,

In particular as we lay our wreaths today we remember all those who laid down their lives for peace but also all those who served proudly and returned safely.

 

Defence Forces:

Ireland became a member of the United Nations in 1955. Since 1958, the Defence Forces have a continuous presence on peace support operations, in recent years, Defence Forces personnel have also found themselves in many parts of the globe as peacekeepers.

Each of those individuals continue to form a solid foundation from which to face the challenges posed by the changing nature of international conflict prevention and crisis management.

The foundation of the State’s approach to international peace and security is set out in our Constitution in which “Ireland affirms its devotion to the ideal of peace and friendly co-operation amongst nations founded on international justice and morality”.

Mary McAleese  in her address at the 50th anniversary of Ireland joining the UN notes that our peace keepers became “a bridge to peace for so many victims of conflict. They were and are the answer to prayers of despair that go up wherever the powerless are overwhelmed by violence and left to wonder whether anyone out there in the wider world cares”.

 

We need leaders:

Perhaps too often we’re quick to take down the one that steps forward to help to lead.

But in the world we live in we need more good leadership than what appears in several countries in the world.

To defend life, to promote peace requires much energy  – life itself whether physical or on some imaginative plain is complex – sometimes the lines are blurred with participants not knowing any better.

Today we are challenged to  think about all our futures and to debate concerns and issues on life itself – what are we doing in our lives to make a difference?

If anything, our remembering today has the power to stop the passerby, to impress, make one question, wonder, dream, remember, be disturbed, explore and not forget.

I wish to congratulate all those involved in this event and encourage one and all to keep going, plough on and keep remembering the power of memory.

On behalf of the City you may be justifiably proud to be part of the achievements of the Irish contribution and I commend you for your dedication to continuing to support veterans and their families; particularly those who have lost loved ones in the service of their country.

May they rest in peace

Thank you

Kieran’s Our City, Our Town article, 2 September 2010

Cork History, Uncategorized

555a. Ballycannon Memorial

 

 Kieran’s Our City, Our Town Article,

Cork Independent, 2 September 2010

In the Footsteps of St. Finbarre (Part 226)

A Tragedy of Ireland

 

Leaving Currikippane, the journey along the River Lee valley to Cork City seems to bring one through the history of twentieth century Ireland. Near Currykippane at Kerrypike lies a memorial erected in 1945 to the memory of six young men that were killed near the spot on 23 March 1921.

The event was part of the Irish War of Independence that had been ongoing since January 1919 and which ended in a truce in July 1921. Hence the tragedy at Kerrypike came in the last four months of the guerilla war headed up by Michael Collins against British forces. Much has been written about this era in Ireland’s history. During the final number of months of the war until the Truce of 11 July 1921, there was a spiralling of the death toll in the conflict, with 1,000 people including the RIC police, British military, IRA volunteers and civilians, being killed in the months between January and July 1921 alone.

Entering the newspapers from the perspective of a peaceful 2010 reveals a very unstable county and frightening atmosphere in late March 1921. Ambushes, deaths and the word tragedy appears regularly across its headlines and columns. The official report for the Kerrypike tragedy, as appearing in the Cork Examiner on Thursday  24 March 1921, outlined that six-armed civilians were killed during a hand to hand fight with the Royal Irish Constabulary in the townland of Ballycannon, four miles from Cork.  The police, the report stated, were searching for three known “murderers” who were in hiding in the neighbourhood of a farm at Ballycannon, kept by a man called Cornelius O’Keeffe.

The three wanted men, together with three others, were discovered hiding in a shed on the farm, which was surrounded. The occupants became aware of the cordon and opened fire with revolvers and both sides engaged in a shoot-out. The occupants, the report outlined, finding the outhouse untenable, made a dash for the open and ran right into the police cordon. A number of hand-to-hand combats took place and all six men were killed. The report notes that the young men carried no rifles, but were armed with bombs and revolvers, together with supplies of dum-dum ammunition (several types of modified ammunition for firearms), all of which were captured. The six men killed were Jeremiah O’Mullane of 227 Blarney Street (aged 23), Daniel Crowley of 171 Blarney Street (aged 22), William Deasy of Mount Desert, Blarney Road (aged 20 years), Thomas Dennehy of 104 Blarney Street (aged 21 years), Daniel Murphy of Urrey Hill (aged 24 years) and Michael O’Sullivan of 261 Blarney Street (aged 20 years).

Mrs. O’Keeffe, who lived at the farm in a conversation with a Cork Examiner, told of a number of men in police uniform knocking loudly at her door after four o’clock in the morning. As her husband and herself reached their broken in front door they were met by uniformed men, who stated that they were to search the house. They did so “with courtesy”, Mrs. O’Keeffe noted. They then ordered them all, the household, back to bed, and left taking Mr. O’Keeffe with them. A few minutes apsed and the noise of much firing was heard. At this time, there were seven or eight lorries of crown forces in the neighbourhood. They moved off with Mr. O’Keeffe for questioning and the dead bodies towards Cork.

The funeral of the six men took place on Sunday 27 March 1921. Newspaper reports in the Cork Examiner on the following day revealed that the remains of the deceased lay in the mortuary attached to the North Cathedral after being removed from the military barracks. Their remains were visited by “thousands of mourners”. The following notice was served by the military on the Bishop of Cork Dr. Cohalan and on Canon O’Sullivan the local administrator:

“Headquarters 17th Infantry Brigade, 27th March, 1921; Dear Sir – in accordance with instructions issued by the Irish Government concerning the restrictions to be placed on the persons allowed to attend funerals. This Military Government has decided that not than 150 persons will be permitted to take part in the funeral procession of Jeremiah Mullane and others today. These persons will be required to conform to the following regulations: (a) they will not be allowed to march in military formation or allowed to carry out any military exercise, (b) no demonstrations of a kind likely to cause a disturbance will be allowed, (c) no republican flags or I.R.A. badges will be displayed. The republican flag will not be permitted on the coffins. The funeral procession is to proceed via Washington Street and Patrick Street. It is requested that you inform all concerned and do all in your power to see these orders are carried out. A copy of this letter has been sent to the Lord Bishop of Cork – yours truly, B.L. Montgomery, Major, Brigade Major, 17th Infantry Brigade”.

The notification was duly communicated to those in charge but none of the procession conformed to the regulations. It was not until 2 o’clock after the funeral masss that the first of the coffins were borne from the Cathedral mortuary on the shoulders of the deceased’s companions and preceded to St. Finbarr’s Cemetery.

 

To be continued…

 

Captions:

555a. Ballycannon Memorial, August 2010 (pictures: Kieran McCarthy)

 

555b. Descent from Clogheen into Kerry Pike; Boggeragh Mountains in the distance, August 2010

 

555b. Descent into Kerry Pike from Clogheen, Co. Cork

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