JOYCEAN PICS 2005
Cork
Contents of This Page

  Kent Rail Station (Cork Station)
  River Lee
  Mac Curtain Street/Summer Hill
  St. Patrick's Hill
  St. Anne's Church Shandon, Shandon St.
  Butter Exchange, O'Connell Sq, Shandon
  St. Patrick's St.
  Oliver Plunkett St.
  "Starvast" (Chinese restaurant), Princess St.
  Grand Parade
  St. Fin Barre's Cathedral, Bishop Street
CONTENTS 2005
   1  Prague IASIL 2005
   2  Prague, Jews and Joyce
   3  Prague: miscellanea
   4  Ceske Budejovice (Post-Conference Tour)
   5  Cesky Krumlov (Post-Conference Tour)
   6  Trebon (Post-Conference Tour)
   7  Jindrichuv Hradec (Post-Conference Tour)
   8  Cervena Lhota (Post-Conference Tour)
   9  Dublin and Joyce
  10  Dublin: miscellanea
  11  Limerick
  12  Galway
  13  Inis Oirr, the Aran Islands
  14  Cork
  15  Blarney
  16  Belfast

Cork

7 August 2005

  
  Cork, the major metropolis of the south, is Ireland's second-largest city.  Its official population of 133,250 (1994) is misleadingly low because it doesn't include the many Corkonians who prefer to live outside the city limits, in pleasant rural areas 10 or 15 minutes' drive from town.  In 1185, the city received its first charter from Prince John of Norman England.  Major development occurred during the 17th and 18th centuries with the expansion of the butter trade, and many attractive Georgian-style buildings with wide bow-fronted windows were constructed during the this time.  Cork gets its name from the Irish (Gaelic) word corcaigh, which means "marshy place."  When the marsh was drained, the River Lee was divided into two streams that now flow through the city, leaving the main business and commercial center on an island.  As a result, the city features a number of bridges and quays, which, although initially confusing, add greatly to the port's unique character.
  "Rebel Cork" emerged as a center of the nationalist Fenian movement in the 19th century.  The city suffered great damage during the civil war in the early 1920s, when much of its center burned.  Dogged by economic slumps throughout this century, Cork is only now regaining some of its former glory through sensitive commercial development and an ongoing program of inner-city renewal.  It is still something of a ghost town after 8 PM, when the business community has gone home. (Ed. Caroline V. Haberfeld, Fodor's Ireland 1995, New York: Fodor's Travel Publications, Inc., 1994)
  
  

 
  Cork is the second most familar Irish city for Joyce because Joyce's father John Stanislaus Joyce was from a rich Catholic family in Cork.  There are many references to Cork in Joyce's works, especially in Part II of A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man in which Stephen and his father made a train trip to Cork:
  
  Stephen was once again seated beside his father in the corner of a railway carriage at Kingsbridge.  He was travelling with his father by the night mail to Cork.  As the train steamed out of the station he recalled his childish wonder of years before and every event of his first day at Clongowes. (A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Gabler & Hettche 1993, II.0946-50)
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  He listened without sympathy to his father's evocation of Cork and of scenes of his youth, a tale broken by sighs or draughts from his pocket flask whenever the image of some dead friend appeared in it or whenever the evoker remembered suddenly the purpose of his actual visit.  Stephen heard but could feel no pity. (A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Gabler & Hettche 1993, II.0956-61)
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  They drove in a jingle across Cork while it was still early morning and Stephen finished his sleep in a bedroom of the Victoria Hotel.  The bright warm sunlight was streaming through the window and he could hear the din of traffic.  His father was standing before the dressing-table, examining his hair and face and moustache with great care, craning his neck across the water-jug and drawing it back sideways to see the better.  While he did so he sang softly to himself with quaint accent and phrasing: (A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Gabler & Hettche 1993, II.0984-92)
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  -- He was the handsomest man in Cork at that time, by God he was!  The women used to stand to look after him in the street. (A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Gabler & Hettche 1993, II.1136-37)
  
  -- I am Stephen Dedalus. I am walking beside my father whose name is Simon Dedalus.  We are in Cork, in Ireland.  Cork is a city.  Our room is in the Victoria Hotel.  Victoria and Stephen and Simon.  Simon and Stephen and Victoria.  Names. (A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Gabler & Hettche 1993, II.1151-54)
  
  On the evening of the day on which the property was sold Stephen followed his father meekly about the city from bar to bar.  To the sellers in the market, to the barmen and barmaids, to the beggars who importuned him for a lob Mr Dedalus told the same tale - that he was an old Corkonian, that he had been trying for thirty years to get rid of his Cork accent up in Dublin and that Peter Pickackafax beside him was his eldest son but that he was only a Dublin jackeen. ... They had unearthed traces of a Cork accent in his speech and made him admit that the Lee was a much finer river than the Liffey.  One of them, in order to put his Latin to the proof, had made him translate short passages from Dilectus and asked him whether it was correct to say: Tempora mutantur nos et mutamur in illis or Tempora mutantur et nos mutamur in illis.  Another, a brisk old man, whom Mr Dedalus called Johnny Cashman, had covered him with confusion by asking him to say which were prettier, the Dublin girls or the Cork girls....
  -- Your father, said the little old man to Stephen, was the boldest flirt in the City of Cork in his day. Do you know that? (A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Gabler & Hettche 1993, II.1178-212)
  
  
06.0558.  -- Never better. How are all in Cork's own town?
06.0559.  -- I was down there for the Cork park races on Easter Monday, Ned
06.0560.  Lambert said. Same old six and eightpence. Stopped with Dick Tivy. (Ulysses)
  
07.0359.  -- North Cork militia! the editor cried, striding to the mantelpiece.  We won
07.0360.  every time!  North Cork and Spanish officers! (Ulysses)
  
07.0679.  -- I saw it, the editor said proudly.  I was present.  Dick Adams, the
07.0680.  besthearted bloody Corkman the Lord ever put the breath of life in, and
07.0681.  myself. (Ulysses)
  
11.0695.  Glorious tone he has still.  Cork air softer also their brogue.  Silly man! (Ulysses)
  
  
17.0532.  What, the enclosures of reticence removed, were their respective
17.0533.  parentages?
  
17.0534.  Bloom, only born male transubstantial heir of Rudolf Virag (subsequently
17.0535.  Rudolph Bloom) of Szombathely, Vienna, Budapest, Milan, London and
17.0536.  Dublin and of Ellen Higgins, second daughter of Julius Higgins (born
17.0537.  Karoly) and Fanny Higgins (born Hegarty).  Stephen, eldest surviving male
17.0538.   consubstantial heir of Simon Dedalus of Cork and Dublin and of Mary,
17.0539.  daughter of Richard and Christina Goulding (born Grier). (Ulysses)
  
17.1648.  Murray, John Mitchel, J. F. X. O'Brien and others, the agrarian policy of
17.1649.  Michael Davitt, the constitutional agitation of Charles Stewart Parnell
17.1650.  (M. P. for Cork City), the programme of peace, retrenchment and reform
17.1651.  of William Ewart Gladstone (M. P. for Midlothian, N. B.) and, in support (Ulysses)
  
  
009.21.  This is the blessed.  Tarra's widdars!  This is jinnies in the bonny
009.22.  bawn blooches.  This is lipoleums in the rowdy howses.  This is the
009.23.  Willingdone, by the splinters of Cork, order fire.  Tonnerre! (Finnegans Wake)
  
236.07.  lissome hers.  He's not going to Cork till Cantalamesse or may-
236.08.  hope till Rose Easter or Saint Tibble's Day.  So Niomon knows. (Finnegans Wake)
  
451.13.  kishes.  Not the Ulster Rifles and the Cork Milice and the Dublin
451.14.  Fusees and Connacht Rangers ensembled! I'd axe the channon
451.15.  and leip a liffey and drink annyblack water that rann onme way. (Finnegans Wake)
  
  

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Kent Station
  
   Kent Rail Station (Cork Station)
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 (Sunday 7 August)
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 (Sunday 7 August) Lower Glanmire Road
  
  
   
River Lee
  
   
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 (Sunday 7 August) North Channel of River Lee; a western view from Brian Boru Bridge
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 (Sunday 7 August) North Channel of River Lee; a western view from St. Patrick's Bridge
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 (Sunday 7 August) North Channel of River Lee; an eastern view from St. Patrick's Bridge
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 (Sunday 7 August) South Channel of River Lee, viewed from the bridge at the south end of Grand Parade
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 (Sunday 7 August) South Channel of River Lee, viewed from French Quay
  
  
   
Mac Curtain Street/Summer Hill
  
   Its hilly geography provides you a scenic view of the city centre of Cork.
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 (Sunday 7 August) A church in the corner of Mac Curtain Street and Summer Hill
  
  
   
St. Patrick's Hill
  
   St. Patrick's Hill
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 (Sunday 7 August) St. Patrick's Hill, viewed from St. Patrick's Bridge
  
  
   
St. Anne's Church Shandon
  
   St. Anne's Church Shandon, Shandon St.
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 (Sunday 7 August) Sign of St. Anne's Church Shandon, Shandon St.
  The Bells of Shandon were immortalized in an atrocious but popular 19th-century ballad of that name.  The pepper-pot Shandon Steeple belongs to St. Anne's Church on Church Street, a three-minute walk downhill (toward the city center) from the Pro-Cathedral.  The name "Shandon" is derived from the Irish word "Sean Dun" (old fort).
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 (Sunday 7 August) St. Anne's Church Shandon, Shandon St.
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 (Sunday 7 August) St. Anne's Church Shandon, Shandon St.
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 (Sunday 7 August) St. Anne's Church Shandon, Shandon St.
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 (Sunday 7 August) St. Anne's Church Shandon, Shandon St.
  
  
   
Butter Exchange
  
   Butter Exchange, O'Connell Sq, Shandon.
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 (Sunday 7 August) Butter Exchange, O'Connell Sq, Shandon.
  This exchange market opened in 1770 as butter is one of best products of Cork.  In 1892 the amount of exports exceeded over 500,000 barrels.  However, after World War I, the market closed in 924 because of the great recession.  A part of the building began to be used as a craft center.
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 (Sunday 7 August) Butter Exchange, O'Connell Sq, Shandon
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 (Sunday 7 August) Butter Museum, O'Connell Sq, Shandon
  
  
   
St. Patrick's St.
  
   St. Patrick's St.
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 (Sunday 7 August) McDonald's, St. Patrick's St.
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 (Sunday 7 August) St. Patrick's St.
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 (Sunday 7 August) St. Patrick's St.
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 (Sunday 7 August) St. Patrick's St.
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 (Sunday 7 August) St. Patrick's St., viewed from St. Patrick's Bridge
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 (Sunday 7 August) Statue of Father Mathew (b. Oct. 1790), the northeast end of St. Patrick's St.
  
  
   
Oliver Plunkett St.
  
   Oliver Plunkett St.
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 (Sunday 7 August) Oliver Plunkett St. Lr.
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 (Sunday 7 August) Gneral Post Office, Oliver Plunkett St
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 (Sunday 7 August) "An Bodhran" ( traditional Irish music pub), Oliver Plunkett St.
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 (Sunday 7 August) Interior of "An Bodhran" ( traditional Irish music pub), Oliver Plunkett St.
  
  
   
"Starvast"
  
   "Starvast" (Chinese restaurant), Princess St.
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 (Sunday 7 August) "Starvast" (Chinese restaurant), Princess St.
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 (Sunday 7 August) My lunch, "Starvast" (Chinese restaurant), Princess St.
  
  
   
Grand Parade
  
   Grand Parade
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 (Sunday 7 August) Fountain, Grand Parade
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 (Sunday 7 August) A monument, the south end of Grand Parade
  
  
   
St. Fin Barre's
  
   St. Fin Barre's Cathedral, Bishop Street
  There has been continuous worship on this site since, according to legend, St. Fin Barre himself established a monastery here in c. A.D. 606.  There have been eleven churches here since then; since the 12th century, which saw the arrival of the Normans in Ireland, these have been cathedrals.  The present cathedral is the third after a medieval Norman and an 18th century neo-classical building both of which were demolished.
  As well as being Cork's premier building, St. Fin Barre's is the diocesan cathedral of the Church of Ireland diocese of Cork.  (The Bishop's residence is directly opposite the cathedral gate).  The Church of Ireland is one of many self-governing provinces of the world-wide Anglican communion.  The Anglican tradition, at once both reformed and catholic, is based on the following four main principles:
  
  1. the Bible as the foundation of the Church's teaching and tradition.
  2. the Nicaean Creed as the ancient, generally recognized creed of the Catholic (= universal Christian) Church
  3. the sacraments of baptism and the Eucharist
  4. the historic episcopate.
  
  The present St. Fin Barre's Cathedral (Church of Ireland; Anglican), abounding in intricate detail, was built between 1865 and 1870 in the neo-Gothic style according to the design of the English architect William Burges.  It was consecrated on St. Andrew's Day, 30 November 1870, just weeks before the Church of Ireland was disestablished and made an entirely voluntary body, dependant for financial support upon its own people.
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 (Sunday 7 August) General information board of St. Fin Barre's Cathedral
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 (Sunday 7 August) Information board of services, St. Fin Barre's Cathedral
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 (Sunday 7 August) St. Fin Barre's Cathedral
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 (Sunday 7 August) St. Fin Barre's Cathedral
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 (Sunday 7 August) St. Fin Barre's Cathedral
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 (Sunday 7 August) St. Fin Barre's Cathedral
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 (Sunday 7 August) St. Fin Barre's Cathedral
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 (Sunday 7 August) The Pulpit, St. Fin Barre's Cathedral
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 (Sunday 7 August) The top of the entrance, St. Fin Barre's Cathedral
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 (Sunday 7 August) Something on the left of the Pulpit, St. Fin Barre's Cathedral
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 (Sunday 7 August) The ceiling of the Pulpit, St. Fin Barre's Cathedral
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 (Sunday 7 August) The Pulpit, St. Fin Barre's Cathedral
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 (Sunday 7 August) The floor of the Pulpit ("Sanctuary Mosaics"), St. Fin Barre's Cathedral
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 (Sunday 7 August) Side Wall of St. Fin Barre's Cathedral
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 (Sunday 7 August) Pictures displayed in the Ambulatory, St. Fin Barre's Cathedral




        


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