Making up a fascinating display of publications old and new, Cork Bound continues at the City Library until December 16th.
An early draft of Frank O'Connor's My Oedipus Complex jostles with Smith's History of Cork and notes by Crofton Croker, while the contribution by Thomas Pembrock, Mayor of Cork in 1733, is a kind of hand-written commonplace book offering accounts of local events, fashions, personalities and folk remedies, including one for the cure of "Scratches in Horses".
The minute book of the reconstruction committee charged with rebuilding Cork after the 1920 fire is on show as a reminder of the resources of the library's local history department. These include Robert C Simington's Civil Survey AD 1654-56 and a number of intriguing maps, to which the more recent publication of Gina Johnson's Laneways of Medieval Cork (2002) provides something of a code-breaker.
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