Inside Cork’s Hill family architecture legacy: Landmark buildings finally get proper credit

Lavish new publication traces generations of Hill architects whose work defined Cork’s streets, landmarks, and architectural heritage

Metropole Hotel by Arthur Hill, who in 1893 noted Cork's new Electric Tramway was to run past its doors. Now, it's on the line of the proposed Cork LUAS

PRIDE in a family member’s profession can be justified: A nurse, or doctor as a parent,  for example, will have touched many lives, for the better.

So it is, too, with architects, at least the good and the great ones; the bad ones, as the cliche goes, just advise clients to plant ivy to cover their mishaps (while doctors bury their mistakes).