Memory lane: Cover stars help launch compilation of historic photographs
Launched last night at the offices of the Irish Examiner, Lapp’s Quay, Cork city, the collection of images by staff photographers maps much of our social history over more than four decades — from the familiar face of the legendary Kathy Barry to the first baby born at the new maternity unit in the Victoria Hospital; from workers of the now defunct Thomson’s Bakery; to May processions and garden fetes.
The book’s cover stars can be traced back to 1946 — the day five-year-old Owen Cashman escorted his young sister Mary, who was “almost four”, to what should have been their first day at the new school in Brooklodge, Glanmire.
