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ST LUKE’S CROSS IN CORK CITY

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I USED AN RX0 CAMERA

St. lukes cross is the junction of five roads – Wellington road, Middle Glanmire Road, Summer hill road, Ballyhooly road and Mahony’s Avenue.

The church is the principal feature at the cross is St. Luke’s church. In the 1830’s St. Luke’s chapel was erected in the gothic revival style as a chapel of ease to St. Anne’s Shandon. In 1887 the church was destroyed in a fire and rebuilt.

WALKING ALONG WELLINGTON ROAD AND SIDNEY PLACE

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IS THIS PART OF THE VICTORIAN QUARTER

Earlier in the day the hotel manager suggested that I should explore the Victorian Quarter which was the first time that I heard anyone actually use the expression. I remember reading, back in 2020, that Sinn Féin councillors complained that lumping MacCurtain Street into an imaginary district that related harmoniously with the Famine Queen was an insult to Tomás MacCurtain, a Lord Mayor after whom the street is named. He was brutally assassinated by police in 1920.

According to Google – The Victorian Quarter is an atmospheric hub of 19th-century buildings north of the River Lee, including neoclassical-style St. Patrick’s Church, with striking stained glass and religious art. Landmark redbrick railway terminal Kent Station has a steam locomotive, and Collins Barracks houses a museum on the Irish Civil War. Vintage clothing and book stores, hip bars, and music festivals give the area bohemian flavour.

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