The old Cork Opera House holds special memories

Your article (Irish Examiner, December 5) prompts me to join the hundreds of Corkonians in remembering with nostalgia that night of December 12 1955, when our beloved Opera House burned.

Thu, 10 Dec, 2015 - 00:00

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As Tennessee Williams once wrote: “In memory, everything seems to happen to music.”

I heard the music that terrible night above the cracking of burning timber and the collapsing roofs and walls.

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