Plenty of pirates and a peculiar sculpture

I CALLED into the European Capital of Culture 2005 offices on Patrick Street in Cork on several occasions, looking for something of actual European culture.

Plenty of pirates and a peculiar sculpture
Fri, 10 Mar, 2006 - 00:00

They had nothing in any European language, not even the most miserable fridge magnet. There was nothing readily available except in English.

This policy of excluding all languages other than English as much as possible was already manifest even before the end of 2005.

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