O Mahony, Colman.

In the Shadows – Life in Cork 1750-1930.

No.159 of a Limited Edition of only 300 copies printed. Ballincollig, Co., Cork, Tower Books, 1997. Octavo (18 cm wide x 25 cm high). xiv, 386 pages with illustrations, facsimiles, maps. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket. Besides some foxing to the dustjacket in excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. Signed and inscribed by the author. An extremely rare book !

Includes: Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth – century Cork / The Cork Water Supply / Typhus and Cholera in early Nineteenth-century Cork / From House of Industry to Workhouse 1803-1841 / The Years of the Great Famine / City Life in the Wake of the Famine / Workhouse Life 1849-1872 / A Period of Improvement 1852-1900 / Workhouse Life 1873-1899 / The Emergence of the Modern City /

With an Appendix: Cork Executions 1712-1911 / Includes a thorough Index /

Includes:

- A Map of Cork in the Late 18th Century
- A Map of Cork in the 1880’s

With a wonderful pictorial section showing images like:

1. Castle Street and “The Exchange” (Circa 1790)
2. View of St.Finbarr’s Cathedral and Elizabeth Fort from South Gate Bridge
[with women collecting River Water from the Lee at Allen’s Slip]
3. The Society of Friends Soup House at Adelaide Street 1847
4. The Central Soup Depot at Barrack Street 1847
5. Typical Cork Lanes (circa 1910)
6. Children at play in Cork Lane (circa 1910)
7. Cork Tenement (circa 1910)
8. Abbey Street (circa 1900)
9. A Variety of Cork Residents passing to GPO Site in Great Georges Street in 1898
10. Interior View of Cork Tenement (circa 1910)
11. Communal Toilets at Cork Tenement (circa 1910)
12. Corporation Ambulance at South Infirmary in the 1890s
13. Mid-1940s View of Clearance Work on Gurranabraher Housing Scheme
14. South Mall (circa 1900)
and several more !

• Keywords: 18th-20th centuries · Catalogue Cork History 2026 · Catalogue Irish History Three – From Famine to Free State · Catalogue Irish History Two – Origins of Irish Identity · Cities · Cork (City) · Cork (County) · Cork (Ireland) · History · History of Irish Politics · Irish Biographies · Irish Biography · Irish History · Irish History – Rare · Irish Medical History · Irish Political History · Irish Politics · Manners and customs · Social Conditions · Social life and customs · Urban Population
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0902568272
• Inventory Number: 32550AB

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