Dubbed ‘the voice of Cork’, he started collecting Cork folk songs in the late 1960s and early ’70s when it was neither fashionable nor profitable.

The Greek Anthology Book XVII

Words Alone: Yeats and his Inheritances, RF Foster, Oxford University Press, €22.95

FOLLOWING the success of the James Barry exhibition, the Crawford Art Gallery in Cork is preparing a similar project highlighting the achievements of Daniel Maclise (1806-1870).