Cork 1902

[@seamusburke9101]

Fantastic videos and commentry. Thanks for uploading. Subscribed.

[@CORKMATE]

Amazing, thanks for sharing!

[@augustinedennis4865]

First class.thank you

[@andrewg.carvill4596]

I remember my mother commenting of 1930's Dublin that "You didn't walk down Grafton Street on a Saturday afternoon without dressing up first" - these films of Cork in the early 1900's seem to catch some of that same outlook on life. Did poverty hide itself, or was nearly everyone poor, by modern standards? I noticed the same thing in a movie reel from the 1930's of a Sunday Mass crowd on Inishmore, Aran Islands - the people looked reasonably happy and prosperous, in what we are usually told was one of the poorest parts of Ireland in the impoverished 1930's.

[@11abrook]

Like any of those loyal to whom ever the "ruling powers" are, if you acquiesce, and dont question, you reap the "goodies".

[@seamusburke9101]

Delusions of grandure more like. I was born and reared in Cork and couldn't stand the Delusions of grandure they had. People looking down their nose at people who were better off than they were themselves.

[@freewheelinfranklyn]

could they really have the film developed and be showing it on the same day it was filmed? thats better than 24 hour photo

[@russell-di8js]

If you made hats you were in the money!!