Readers have been sending us their memories of Alfred and Ship Street, writes JO KERRIGAN in her weekly Throwback Thursday column

Readers share their memories this week with JO KERRIGAN, of their favourite cake, the role horses played in the life of the city, and recollections of happy childhoods

We asked... and you delivered! JO KERRIGAN clears up the riddle of the Cork city horse trough location, plus more of your memories of roads around the city

Can you tell us the whereabouts of this 1920s horse trough? Also this week, JO KERRIGAN asks what about the marmalade in the chocolate slice?

Readers tell JO KERRIGAN about their fond memories of motorcycle racing, avoiding entry fees at sports games, and picking up ‘lost’ coal on bad road bends

What acts are gracing the stages of Cork theatres this week? Jo Kerrigan finds out

Is it just me, asks JO KERRIGAN, or did the bread and cakes of yesteryear taste so much better? This week, she revisits the bakeries of bygone days

MARY ROSE MCCARTHY catches up with Pat Ronan, of Ronan Engineering, who is involved in restoring gates that were removed from the city after the Burning of Cork

More of your memories of bygone Cork, as JO KERRIGAN hears about cakes, ice creams - and the remnants of an ice house under Mahon Point shopping centre

Amongst Pat Fitzgerald’s sporting memories, he tells JO KERRIGAN, was an occasion when ladies’ teams from Ringmahon and Blackrock played a charity match 60 years ago - and attracted a record attendance at the Church Road venue

A reader sends us photos and shares his memories of Greenmount School from the 1950s - and JO KERRIGAN also hears about memories of Ringmahon Rangers

Cork people recall their memories of Easter in this week’s Throwback Thursday - as well as First Communions and learning to road bowl

There are memories of riding via pony trap, Cork’s fruit sellers and corner shops of old in this week’s Throwback Thursday by Jo Kerrigan. And an Easter call-out too...

A reader shares his memories of playing sports in Blackrock in the ‘50s and ‘60s, with JO KERRIGAN

Memories of lanes long-gone, fishing tackle experts, and the paddling pool that could have started the polio epidemic... JO KERRIGAN looks back

When Noel Dillon, now aged in his eighties, reminisced in Throwback Thursday about a childhood friend in Crosshaven who emigrated to England, a remarkable connection was made that bridged 70 years, reveals JO KERRIGAN

We asked for more women to come forward with their Cork memories, and a female reader regales JO KERRIGAN with tales of school, skipping and trips to town, in our weekly column, Throwback Thursday

In the ‘50s, kids watching cowboy films in the ‘Assems’ used to shout ‘Georgie, remove the bodies!’ What was the origin of the chant? JO KERRIGAN finds out

A Throwback Thursday reader shares his Confirmation class photo from 1968 in Cork... and tells JO KERRIGAN the names of ALL the pupils

When Ron Delany won gold in 1956, it prompted a Cork teacher to use it for a maths poser. JO KERRIGAN has more of your memories of schooldays and a few from the golden age of Cork cinema

Echo newspaper sellers were a common sight - and sound - on the streets of Cork city for decades, says JO KERRIGAN, who also has more of your school memories

Memories of your school days... and JO KERRIGAN hears about a Glasheen teacher whose death at 95 led to an outpouring of grief from his old charges

The Savoy organist left an imprint on the minds of many Cork people, says JO KERRIGAN, who also unearths more of your memories of your schooldays

When a little boy’s toy yacht was swept out to sea off Crosshaven years ago, two local men in a rowing boat came to the rescue, says JO KERRIGAN

This week on Throwback Thursday, a reader tells JO KERRIGAN about his first day at school in Cork in 1956, and recalls how a comic strip helped his education

A Corkman now living in New Jersey tells JO KERRIGAN how the terrorist attack on New York in 2001 brought back memories of the Opera House blaze in 1955

More of your motorcycle memories this week in Throwback Thursday – and the anniversary of the night that Cork lost a treasured icon, Cork Opera House

This week in Throwback Thursday, JO KERRIGAN has more on the old Wilton hospital site, plus we take a stroll down North Main Street in bygone times

The glory days of the Munster Motor Cycle & Car Club roar to life again in this week’s Throwback Thursday, reveals JO KERRIGAN

Bananas, the apples of yesteryear, and the great days of Cork motorcycling, are on the Throwback Thursday agenda with JO KERRIGAN

Jo Kerrigan hears more of your nostalgic stories – of golden days in Crosshaven, and of the golden cargo on banana boats, which included some surprise guests!

The annual Buttevant horse fair was a great occasion, hears JO KERRIGAN, who also recalls railway and cycling stories from the bygone days in Cork

JO KERRIGAN talks trains and boats and bikes in Cork city, and also hears about some of the shops that used to occupy MacCurtain Street in olden days

The sighting of a photo in our Throwback Thursday column sparked lots of memories for one of our readers, writes Jo Kerrigan

Derailed lions, the old Innisfallen, Carrigaline Christmas ware - your memories keep coming, says Jo Kerrigan in her weekly 'Throwback Thursday' column

In her weekly column, Throwback Thursday, Jo Kerrigan hears more childhood stories from Corkonians still living at home and abroad, in our weekly Throwback Thursday

Jo Kerrigan discovers more wonderful memories of trains and summer excursions, talks to a homesick expat (far away in Mayo!), and discovers The Carrigaline Pottery Bell

Our story last week on Carrigaline Pottery invoked many memories, while JO KERRIGAN also remembers some of the shops and people of the northside, in our weekly Throwback Thursday feature

Our article last week on washdays of the past really got our readers’ memories flowing, says JO KERRIGAN, who also recalls Carrigaline’s pottery industry

Jo Kerrigan looks back to a time before gadgets and electricity, when doing the laundry meant rather more than tossing things into the machine.

The great old department stores of Cork, local furniture making, and saving pennies, are all on the agenda for JO KERRIGAN this week

After discussing foods we hated in last week’s article, JO KERRIGAN concentrates on some of the foods we used to love back in the day

Cork readers shared their memories of foods of their childhood with JO KERRIGAN — some they recalled fondly, others they detested...

Jo Kerrigan compares the food we were accustomed to in Cork in the 1950s and ‘60s with the fast-food, takeaways, and Deliveroos we take for granted today.

Cork’s outdoor baths have a special place in so many hearts, writes Jo Kerrigan in her Throwback Thursday column

Seaside memories feature this week as people share their holiday memories with Jo Kerrigan in Throwback Thursday

This week, JO KERRIGAN reveals some of your old memories of Bonfire Night, and also recalls summer days swimming in Cork’s pools

In this week’s Throwback Thursday, Jo Kerrigan looks at one of Cork’s oldest traditions — Bonfire Night — which has its roots in pagan times

Jo Kerrigan recalls long-ago summer holidays, Jimmy Cagney at the Ritz, and life in 1940s Cobh, in this edition of Throwback Thursday

JO KERRIGAN recalls the days when steam trains puffed along Cork tracks, and also marks the 50th anniversary of the debut of Hall’s Pictorial Weekly on RTÉ