Historians back fight to save cemetery

SOME of the world’s leading historians have backed a campaign against controversial plans to build on one of only two historic Huguenot cemeteries left in Europe.

Carolyn Lougee, the Frances and Charles Field Professor of History at Stanford in California; Dr Robin Gmynn, an eminent Huguenot scholar from New Zealand; Professor Eamonn Ó Carragáin, Professor of Old and Middle English at UCC, and Professor Ruth Whelan, of NUI Maynooth, are among the leading academics who have lent their weight to the campaign against the plans for the cemetery on Cork’s Carey’s Lane.

Restaurateur John Murphy is again seeking planning permission to build on the tiny, derelict cemetery.