Michael Moynihan: In search of one of the most elusive native dishes of Cork city

No sign of tripe and drisheen on the menu in the restaurants of Cork

Customers buying tripe and drisheen at O’Reilly’s stall in the English Market, Cork in June 1959. Picture:Ref. 904K

THE precise year need not detain us unduly, suffice to say that your columnist was probably dressed in sensible short pants and Clark’s Commando shoes.

Which would locate the event in the fashion wilderness of the very early seventies.