Michael Moynihan: Change the only constant certainty in a living, breathing city like Cork

It can be hard to avoid the sense a golden age has slipped away

View of the old Coliseum cinema, at the East end of MacCurtain St, in Cork. Picture: Irish Examiner Archive/Ref 756C

MANY thanks to the person who forwarded on the old clip of Frank O’Connor talking to Huw Wheldon of the BBC programme Monitor.

You’ve probably seen it. Grainy footage from 1961 of the great Cork writer ruminating on his native city to the interviewer (“You don’t have to sell Cork to me, Huw,” O’Connor says. “To me, it’s the most important city in the world.”)