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Forgotten Cork: Photographs from the Day Collection
Robert Day was one of the most important antiquarians of his day. He was President of the Cork Cuverian Society and its successor, the Cork Historical and Archaeological Society, from 1894 to his death in 1914.
An expert photographer, he readily imparted this passion to his son William and grandson Alec, an award-winning photographer, who formed the Cork Camera Club in 1932, and died in 1980. From the second half of the nineteenth century to the closing decades of the twentieth, they created a unique and unsurpassed photographic record of Cork city and its environs.
The Day Collection contains the earliest known photographs of Cork, a city changed immeasurably since they were taken, and now published for the first time.
History leaps from these pictures which capture city streetscapes and characters from the 1850s to the 1950s and record, in rich detail, historic events such as the visit of Edward VII to Cork in 1903 and the departure of the Titanic from Cobh in 1912, the last recorded photograph of the ill-fated liner. This selection is taken from several hundred glass plate slides, many recently catalogued and restored by Billy Wigham.
An expert photographer, he readily imparted this passion to his son William and grandson Alec, an award-winning photographer, who formed the Cork Camera Club in 1932, and died in 1980. From the second half of the nineteenth century to the closing decades of the twentieth, they created a unique and unsurpassed photographic record of Cork city and its environs.
The Day Collection contains the earliest known photographs of Cork, a city changed immeasurably since they were taken, and now published for the first time.
History leaps from these pictures which capture city streetscapes and characters from the 1850s to the 1950s and record, in rich detail, historic events such as the visit of Edward VII to Cork in 1903 and the departure of the Titanic from Cobh in 1912, the last recorded photograph of the ill-fated liner. This selection is taken from several hundred glass plate slides, many recently catalogued and restored by Billy Wigham.
131 pages, Hardcover
First published March 15, 2005
About the author
Robert Day
72 books7 followersAmerican novelist and short-story writer. He has been awarded a National Endowment to the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship, Yaddo and McDowell Fellowships, a Maryland Arts Council Award, and the Edgar Wolfe Award for distinguished fiction.
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