Michael Moynihan: 101 things to enjoy about Cork at Christmas (may not actually be 101)

The Ferris Wheel on the Grand Parade has become a must-visit in recent years. Even the arrival of Storm Barra was unable to budge it from the to-do list. Picture: Darragh Kane

YOU shouldn’t be surprised to learn that Cork is a Christmas city. After all, the man who invented the modern idea of the holiday came to Leeside in 1858 to share his blueprint for Christmas.

As I told you last December, that year Dickens came to Cork and gave a reading from A Christmas Carol— “one of the most exquisite prose idylls in any language”, as one of my predecessors in these pages reported at the time.