Based on private collections from Adrian Healy and John James, 'LOVE from CORK' portrays the city and county of Cork through a century of Irish and European picture postcards (1900–2000). In addition to the postcards there are transcriptions of all the written details on the cards. Interspersed among these are extracts from the rich literary heritage of southwest Ireland: William Trevor, Frank O'Connor, Elizabeth Bowen, Sean Ó Faoláin, Peter Somerville-Large, Mary Leland, and others. Also included are writers such as James Joyce (who set a significant episode of 'Portrait of the Artist' in Cork city), Benedict Kiely and Robert Lloyd Praeger.
Even Queen Victoria features – there is an excerpt from her private journal giving her first impressions of Cork’s harbour and the 'Cove of Cork' (renamed 'Queenstown' in honour of her visit, the first time she set foot in Ireland). There has never been a book on the postcards of Cork; covering city and county, from Allihies to Youghal, from Clonakilty to Charleville and just about everywhere in between, this beautifully finished book is a finely wrought homage to the author’s native county.
Even Queen Victoria features – there is an excerpt from her private journal giving her first impressions of Cork’s harbour and the 'Cove of Cork' (renamed 'Queenstown' in honour of her visit, the first time she set foot in Ireland). There has never been a book on the postcards of Cork; covering city and county, from Allihies to Youghal, from Clonakilty to Charleville and just about everywhere in between, this beautifully finished book is a finely wrought homage to the author’s native county.