Nov 4, 2024
In the summer of 2024, works started on an extensive three phase restoration project at Sirius Arts Centre. Led by JCA Architects and Moroney Conservation, the works to the building began with restoring some of the features that architect Anthony Salvin designed for the RCYC clubhouse all the way back in the 1850s.
In...
Nov 4, 2024
“The architects of these buildings are looking back to the Italian renaissance; this building is a revival of a revival, if you know what I mean.
This is an Irish building which is copying a Roman building of the renaissance, which is copying a building of Ancient Rome.”
Historian Tom Spalding is the man whose...
Nov 4, 2024
“It was something that was broken, and I had to fix it.”
In 1987 Peter Murray, then curator at Crawford Art Gallery in Cork city, embarked on an extraordinary journey: his goal was to purchase and restore the then-derelict former Royal Cork Yacht Club building in Cobh and to transform it into a cultural venue. Over...