Exhibition Opening: Grattan Street Stories: Memory of Place

 Exhibition Opening of “Grattan Street Stories: A Memory of Place” at St. Peter North Main Street, Cork, at 6pm on Thursday, February 6th 2020.

Visual exhibit by Dr Edith O’Regan-Cosgrave, in collaboration with the Cork Folklore Projects Memory of Place presentation, supported through the Community Work Department and Social Inclusion Cork Kerry Community Healthcare HSE. 

"Grattan Street Stories: A Memory of Place” is a visual art exhibition and folklore presentation about Grattan Street Health Centre and the community it served. 

The exhibition combines photographs, paintings, text, paper artifacts, oral history and archival material to explore the life and closure of a community healthcare centre, sited in a former 19th century Quaker meeting house in Cork’s inner city.

  

6:00pm: Official Opening by Editor of Cork Beo, author and broadcaster Joe O’Shea, followed by a presentation by The Cork Folklore Project and opening reception.

For further information see www.edithcosgrave.com and www.corkfolklore.org. The exhibition continues in St. Peters North Main Street Cork https://stpeterscork.ie/  until February 28th 2020.