Cork City Reflections: New book merges old postcards with modern images 

Historic postcards from the Cork Public Museum archives give us insight into how much the city has changed (in some parts, very little) over the past 100 years or so 

images from the Cork City Reflections book.

Thanks to Instagram and other social media platforms, holiday greetings can be sent from any far-flung location in the blink of any eye, but when it comes to getting a glimpse of how we lived in the past, nothing can beat a postcard.

Cork City Reflections is a collection merging historic postcards from Cork Public Museum's archives with recent colour views, showing the changing face of the city in the last century or so. Authored by the museum’s curator, Dan Breen and local historian, Kieran McCarthy, the collection makes judicious use of the museum’s growing archive of interesting and rare images.