A key to Cork’s educational past turns up after 100 years

Education may hold the key to our future but a key to Cork’s educational past has turned up a century after it was first turned.

The chance sighting of an Irish Examiner article about the celebration of 100 years of learning at the Crawford college in Cork has led to a unique piece of the building’s history being returned after quite a long journey.

Once home to the predecessor of Cork Institute of Technology, it was opened as the Crawford Municipal Technical Institute in January 1912 by Cork’s lord mayor, James Simcox.