Blast from the Past: 'Cork Opera House is destroyed by fire: thousands watch huge blaze'
Crowds look on from Lavitt's Quay as fire engulfs Cork Opera House in 1955. Picture: Irish Examiner Archive
The second of our pieces to mark the Examiner's 180 years in existence isn't just an important account of what happened to Cork's old Opera House – it's also a brilliant piece of writing.
Back then, journalists' names weren't used in the paper, but the unknown scribe was clearly a master of their art.
