Michael Moynihan: Good vibes as music store brings back sense of community to Cork
When Crowley’s music shop on MacCurtain Street closed ten years ago the gloom was general around the city. Now his daughter Sheena Crowley has resurrected the family shop her late father set up in the old Badly Made Books premises
Sheena Crowley in Crowley's Music Centre which has re-opened at Friar St, Cork. Picture Denis Minihane.
The dereliction, the vacant shop fronts, the boarded windows — it can all combine to get you down, let’s be honest, when you stroll around Cork. As indicated here last week, there are stretches which are so cruelly neglected it enough to put you in a bad mood for the day.
Which is one of the reasons your columnist roamed up towards Friar Street last week.
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