Cork’s great music family

CORK City libraries have, once again, performed a noteworthy public service, principally through the efforts of librarian Liam Ronayne and Kitty Buckley of the music library.

Not only have they mounted a splendid exhibition that celebrates the life and times of the late Aloys Fleischmann; they have produced a very beautiful booklet that places ‘The Prof’ in a family context, a family which has made a really significant contribution to the cultural life of Cork.

In his address at the launch of this booklet, historian John A Murphy drew attention to a poignant event that happened in 1978.