George Boole’s home to be restored

The derelict former Cork home of maths genius George Boole, the father of modern computer science, is to be restored as part of an ambitious joint venture.

University College Cork (UCC), which is planning a range of celebrations next year to mark Boole’s bicentenary, has sanctioned €600,000 for the project with Cork City Council to save the protected structure at Grenville Place.

City councillors will be asked next week to sanction the compulsory acquisition of the building as the first step in the project, which will lead to it being redeveloped, and handed back to UCC for development as a landmark building.