Eclectic mix of artefacts is Pure Cork

THE title says it all: Pure Cork, suggesting something inherent to the city by the Lee, immediately understood by Corkonians, like a secret passed on from generation to generation.

Historian Michael Lenihan, a connoisseur of yesteryear, has been letting that secret out over the past few years with various books on his native city, mostly notably “Hidden Cork”, which was published last year.

“Pure Cork” is his latest offering, representing the culmination of 40 years collecting and collating an extraordinary array of photographs, sketches and memorabilia, most of which have rarely seen the light of day before.