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One hundred years ago, the Cork Examiner published a series of opinion pieces by a contributor known as 'Periscope', highlighting a range of social and political issues — some of which are as relevant today as they were back then

A Cork schoolchildren's summer excursion to Youghal leaves Lower Glanmire Rd station on July 1, 1931. 

The last rose of summer which, as we have heard in song and opera, was left blooming alone, might bloomin' well have chuckled at having bested "all her lovely companions" which were "faded and gone" before the burst of summer weather that made Wednesday the finest summer day of the season. 

Well, cabbage rose or rows of cabbage, every living thing must have grown and lived the better for such a day of sweet sunshine and warm air.