Cork Strolls is streets ahead

A new guidebook, ‘Cork Strolls: Exploring Cork’s Architectural Treasures’, offers a revealing view on the Rebel City’s heritage, says Dan MacCarthy

OF the myriad of books written about Cork City perhaps no one captures this beautiful city so eloquently as Tom McElligott in his Six O’Clock All Over Cork, where he described the city as like a bouquet of flowers strewn along the valley. There have been other walking guides of course, such as Paul Cussen’s Cork: A Pocket Guide, published by Collins Press to coincide with Cork’s European City of Culture status in 2005.