Cork City Council Centenary: Housing crisis, cost of living, and widespread poverty influenced 1920 vote

Independence was an issue in Cork’s local elections in 1920, but a housing crisis, the cost of living, and widespread poverty also influenced the vote, writes Kieran McCarthy.

IN A wide-ranging interview published on February 3, 1920, in The Cork Examiner, senior councillor of Cork Corporation, 70-year-oldEdward Fitzgerald of the Irish Parliamentary Party, is still hopeful but with a hint of political battle weariness.