On Easter Saturday 1916, Tom Clifford sat down in his room in 4 Gardiner St to write a letter to his brother Dan. The letter has recently been discovered by their niece, Carmel Clifford.

OPPOSITE ends of the spectrum — having sold Woodlawn in Sunday’s Well for over €5 million in the summer (a new Cork city residential record) estate agent Hugh McPhillips of Marsh’s has another rarity on his books, a total do-er upper, yet one also in the multi-million euro league.