Under The Stairs: How the Corner House in Cork inspired a trad album 

Johnny McCarthy and Eoin Ó Riabhaigh named their record after a favoured spot for musicians playing in the Coburg Street pub 

Eoin Ó Riabhaigh and Johnny McCarthy literally under the stairs in the Corner House pub in Cork.Picture: Emmet Ó Riabhaigh

It was Belfast flute player Harry Bradley who decided that the window seat favoured by other musicians at the Corner House in Cork city was not, from an acoustic perspective, the best one in the house.

Under the stairs was, he reckoned, a preferable spot for the weekly sessions at which he joined uilleann piper Eoin Ó Riabhaigh at Fearghal MacGabhann’s renowned traditional music venue on Coburg St.