Cork City, Castles & Coast, Éire

There was a time when all the photos found in this album were made with the first camera that I ever bought for myself, a Ricoh 35 mm compact. That was what I did with money gifted to me for my twenty-first birthday while I was a student at University College, Cork. There is more to my associations with the city than that for there was a hospital stay there during my early years along with trips to a consultant ophthalmologist until later in my time in primary school.

Following those and the gaining of my primary university degree, visits to the place were far fewer until I started using the city’s airport for trips to and from Ireland in late 2014. Since then, I passed through there several times a year and many of the photos that you now see here come from such trips in 2014 and 2015. Some come from after those years, when circumstances allowed me to explore more of what is found in the surrounding area, hence the current title for this album.

My association with Cork has taken another twist with my buying a place to stay in the city to replace a family home in rural County Limerick that I needed to sell because its ongoing maintenance required more time and attention than I was able to give it. That added more photos and widened the scope to include what is found in the immediate vicinity. Things have moved a long way from the days of that simple fixed lens film camera during the nineteen nineties.