As a Corkman, I have to say you did a great job with this video. Thanks that was fantastic.

@AidanEyewitness

Жыл бұрын

Thanks very much indeed for your comment, very glad to hear that. I inly recently visited Cork for the first time properly though I had friends at TCD who were from Cork and told me all about it. Many thanks again, I am honoured!

@CinCee-

Жыл бұрын

*Corkyite

@brianoc7926

Жыл бұрын

100% I was about to say the same. I'd be proud to call it home after seeing this video!

@timward3116

Жыл бұрын

I don't know about some of these modern buildings in Cork. They're more interesting than beautiful - and some of them seem to strive hard at being different but lose any sense of grace. They just seem awkward and out of place. Mind you, it's not my city and I probably have no right to criticize (nor was my opinion requested). I truly do love Cork City, though. I lived there for about a year when I was much younger, and I was blown away but its magic even back then.

Was für ein arbeitsreicher Tag! I love the way Cork seems to build new upon the old. Rather than just demolish history. It embraces the city's past and adds to it.

@AidanEyewitness

2 жыл бұрын

Vielen Dank! Yes, I was very impressed with how they are doing things in Cork, especially travelling in from Manchester! Manchester could learn a thing or two from Cork, I think!

Thank you for this intro to Cork, a city I knew very little about. It's great to see the vitality of the city and the fact that old is being retained and combined with the new.

@AidanEyewitness

2 жыл бұрын

Yes, regional cities are often overshadowed by the capital but Cork is as big and impressive as the capital city of many smaller countries. I only went there once while I was at TCD to visit a friend who was from Cork. Many thanks!

Thanks for this. Watching from Kampala, Uganda. I’ll be joining at the University College Cork in September this year.

@AidanEyewitness

2 жыл бұрын

Glad you’ve seen my video in far away Kampala and can gain an impression of Cork before you arrive. I’m sure you’ll have a great time there. Many thanks!

@diarmuidbuckley6638

Жыл бұрын

Karibu

@jimmycarrollgodblesspoland5521

9 ай бұрын

You’ll be as welcome as the month of May 🕊🇮🇪✝️☘️🙏

Greetings from Ireland! Such a positive excellent video

@AidanEyewitness

Жыл бұрын

I’m very glad to receive your positive feedback. I never imagined this video would be so well received. I want to do more from Cork and other parts of Ireland.

Firstly a tip of the hat for your pronunciation of place names as Gaeilge, maith thú! 😉 Excellent tour of Cork, a city that definitely has more ambition architecturally than Dublin in my opinion. It will be very interesting to see how the docklands develops in the future.

@AidanEyewitness

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for that acknowledgement. I am a linguist so it is my business to pronounce languages correctly. I taught myself some Irish as a child as I didn’t go to school in Ireland. Yes I’m impressed with what I’ve seen in Cork so far. I’m there again on the 23rd of July.

As a visitor to Cork last week for a flight after seeing the green mountainous countryside, I immediately thought 'hang on' this is quite a clean and handsome city. I must return, stay and eat there. I have heard the food scene is really good.

@AidanEyewitness

11 ай бұрын

Yes, Cork is great! I hope to return there soon.

@jimmycarrollgodblesspoland5521

9 ай бұрын

You’ll love the food, and we Corkonions are ok too😘

You did a great commentary with this video! much thought and effort put into it, thank you for particularly focusing on architecture

@AidanEyewitness

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you very much indeed for the positive comments. I did put a lot if thought and effort into it. I do with all my videos. Architecture, especially modern architecture is my special angle, not just the regular tourist attractions. Not many people give feedback, so yours is much appreciated!

God, I want to visit! And I live in cork!!😊

@AidanEyewitness

Жыл бұрын

Glad to hear that. You are lucky to live in Cork!

I also wish that every development would publish more visualizations of how the completed project is going to look. All the real estate on construction site hoarding should be put to good use, literature would also be a great use of the space. Good to see it in Cork!

@AidanEyewitness

2 жыл бұрын

Yes the visualisations on the Horgan’s Quay site are exceptionally good but other sites have nothing. They are good for PR and provide me with good visual material for my videos! It’s nice to see literature instead of sales patter!

Elysian was not the first tall building as you stated. The County Hall (still present on the skyline a little beyond the downtown area) is 67 meters tall. Unlike Liberty Hall in Dublin, County Hall has been cared for and maintained and looks pretty good for its age. Good video BTW- I appreciate your affection for the topic!

@AidanEyewitness

Жыл бұрын

Thanks, yes, I overlooked Cork County Hall but included it in my second Cork video. Have you watched it?

Well done on fabulous video. By the way during the last economic crash when the Elysian was empty it got the nickname “the idle tower” as there was an old dockers pub near it called the idle hour. That pub is now closed to make way for another new building. Come back again in a few years to update your video. Watch this space and thanks again.

@AidanEyewitness

Жыл бұрын

Thank you very much for your kind comments. I’d not heard about the name ‘idle tower’ from the ‘Idle Hour’ pub. I plan to come back in a few weeks or months as I want to do a follow up feature on on Cork and I want to visit Cóbh too. I really like Cork and I need to see more of the city and nearby area.

I love the design whereby the old is retained in the past.

@AidanEyewitness

Жыл бұрын

Yes me too but in past years that would have been unthinkable. Thank goodness they are doing it now and symbols of Cork’s rich history are preserved

Well done mate excellent commmintery you have done an amazing video you have done your history. Love it .

@AidanEyewitness

Жыл бұрын

Thank you very much, that’s what I like to hear. And I can announce I am going for another day trip to Cork next Saturday (4.3.2023) to do a follow up video!

@tomjones-nw8nn

Жыл бұрын

@@AidanEyewitness looking forward to it.

I never realised cork was such a nice city bye the way there is a concrete cathedral in San Francisco I think it's called grace cathedral

@AidanEyewitness

2 жыл бұрын

It’s been great to explore Cork. During the four years I was at Trinity College Dublin, I only visited Cork once! It is a great city, perhaps under-appreciated. I didn’t know there was a concrete cathedral in San Francisco. Must visit some time! Many thanks for your comment.

@jimmycarrollgodblesspoland5521

9 ай бұрын

You might like to know that Cork is twinned with San Francisco ❤

I'm from cork, its nice getting a bit of an education about your own city.

@AidanEyewitness

Жыл бұрын

I knew little about Cork before my recent visit but I had some good friends from Cork when I was studying at Trinity College Dublin. They used to talk about Cork and the attitudes of the people there. They joked about guys in the pub boasting “six pints no ‘ffect, boy!” Or maybe that was in Fermoy! :)

@macker33

Жыл бұрын

@@AidanEyewitness In the city its ten pints.

@AidanEyewitness

Жыл бұрын

@@macker33 Ha ha! I remember my dad saying when he was young he and his friends could drink 60 pints during the course of a day and be well capable of driving from Abbeyfeale to Cork. He said it in all seriousness! :)

@macker33

Жыл бұрын

@@AidanEyewitness Of course pints were much bigger in those days.

Really great video! I enjoyed the tour of my city by the Lee! We are still waiting for the tallest building. No sign of it yet!

@AidanEyewitness

11 ай бұрын

Thanks very much for your comment! I’m not sure if that building will ever get built!

(For the record: the Elysian took the title of "tallest building" from... Cork County Hall, which is a little over a mile to its west, on the other side of UCC. That the current one is in Dublin is a very new development indeed; before 2018 that hadn't been true in fifty years)

@AidanEyewitness

Жыл бұрын

Many thanks for that information. I didn't pick up on Cork County Hall, I didn't get that far on my visit to Cork. The building looks very impressive en.wikipedia.org/wiki/County_Hall,_Cork It was built from 1965 to 1968 and was renovated a few years ago. Architect Patrick McSweeney. I will definitely visit and feature it on my next visit to Cork. Thanks for pointing it out!

Thank you for pronouncing Páirc Uí Chaoimh correctly and, to be honest, better than many people in Ireland would. This is a little ironic given the acknowledgment in the video that it is often said that English is spoken better in Ireland than in England.

@AidanEyewitness

Жыл бұрын

Go raibh maith agat! I am a linguist, so I make it my business to pronounce languages correctly. I teach German and English online. I taught myself the basics of Irish as a teenager going to school in Manchester. My parents never learned it much as they were born (in Co Limerick) before the foundation of the Irish Free State! Thanks to them I hold an Irish passport today. I have a distant relative William O’Neill-Lane who wrote what’s said to be the first Irish-English dictionary (published 1912). I hope to learn more Irish and get to a higher level. Thanks for your comment

I love the idea of incorporating some of the old buildings with new. Manchester has lost so many beautiful buildings and it is still happening. Will they ever learn? I Don’t think so. They’ll be sorry…….. or will they? Great video as usual thank you.

@AidanEyewitness

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks as ever for your great comment. I agree totally. Manchester needs to learn from other cities. The Smiths Arms could have been incorporated into the new building, like how they’ve done it in Cork. It was the oldest pub in Ancoats and is sorely missed. I think in years to come there may be greater awareness of what’s been lost.

@leevancleef451

2 жыл бұрын

I've noticed quite a lot of fires in greater Manchester especially old mills over the year's...

@AidanEyewitness

2 жыл бұрын

@@leevancleef451 That’s true. The fire in the former police station was just one of many. It was being used to store fireworks. Another was the fire on Dale Street. A new building is there now. Some say fires are started to fraudulently claim insurance or to get rid of a historic building. That would need to be investigated. Many thanks.

As we say in Cork...well done kid

@AidanEyewitness

Жыл бұрын

Many thanks, it’s a great honour to get positive feedback from people in Cork.

Thanks

@AidanEyewitness

Жыл бұрын

Thank you - شكرًا

Hi and thanksAidanEyewitness for sharing. OMG, this film is a complete tour guide which I have never seen in the past. Very informative with specific details. Modern architecture meets the aged and weathered rich heritage of Ireland. I wonder how residents react to reality, changes are coming. "Japanese Garden" is fascinating to see. especially that is my home country---6;13. Are there earthquake plates in any part of Ireland if countless high contemporary buildings are proposed? May I ask if you are an architect or an artist as I see your sketch of the building---7;03. There are too many unknowns and look forward to exploring more videos. Thank you. fheiceann tú an chéad uair eile 🙋‍♀🙋‍♀🛶🛶

@AidanEyewitness

2 жыл бұрын

Many thanks for your comment and positive comments! The Japanese garden is inside the Elysian in the courtyard. I would like to visit it. No, there are no earthquake plates in Ireland, at least, not ones that would cause damage to buildings. There are occasionally very small tremors where the ground shakes a little bit. I visited Japan, I love it so much. I included a photo of Japan in my latest video, which is about Salford Quays (Manchester). I am not an architect, but I'm interested in architecture and I like to do occasional sketches of buildings. I'm glad to see you are using the Irish language a little bit! ありがとうございました Can I ask a question: Do you live in Cork / Ireland?

@ms.kayak7seas

2 жыл бұрын

@@AidanEyewitness Thank you so much for educating me. I wish, but I have never been to Ireland. Kayaking in Ireland is already on my bucket list though. I'm glad to hear that you like your visit to Japan. May I ask which part of Japan you explored? JP recently eases the covid restrictions, but still mandates to wearing of masks. Your Japanese is A+. I just cheated the Irish language by googling but still learning. 😅. I am looking forward to watching your new video. I do like your content and much information to take in. Again, Thank you. 🙋‍♀🙋‍♀🛶🛶

@AidanEyewitness

2 жыл бұрын

@@ms.kayak7seas @Ms.Kayak7seas We went to Tokyo, Kyoto, Hiroshima, Miyajima... It was a wonderful experience and I wish I could go back and do some videos from there! Not at the moment. :( I also looked up the Japanese for 'thank you' in Google! Many thanks for your comments, they give me great encouragement, my channel is still in its early stages and I need to continue with it. I will!

@ms.kayak7seas

2 жыл бұрын

@@AidanEyewitness I am pleased to hear you could explore JP's modern and also traditional rich heritage. When you visit JP for the next time, you may look into its traditional carpentry. They don't use many nails to build traditional wooden houses. I watched the newest video and am working on my comment. 🙋‍♀🙋‍♀🛶🛶bíodh lá maith agat

@mountainsofelysium7379

Жыл бұрын

@@ms.kayak7seas while I haven't been kayaking myself, there are kayak tours to a seal colony in Glengarriff in west Cork, it is a stunningly beautiful part of the country... and of course you could check out Cork City itself if you do come. Hope you do visit this wonderful country

Very intuitive, do you still do your walk abouts in Liverpool

@AidanEyewitness

Жыл бұрын

Sorry for the late reply to your comment and thanks for your comment! I do occasional bespoke walks in Liverpool for individuals and small groups. Many thanks for your interest!

Cork county council buiding was the first tall buiding in cork😊

@AidanEyewitness

8 ай бұрын

Yes, it’s incredible that it appeared 1965 - 1968. I only found out about it after I made this video! Many thanks!

@gerarddeegan1164

8 ай бұрын

@@AidanEyewitness your welcome🙂

@gerarddeegan1164

8 ай бұрын

@@AidanEyewitness it is now cork county hall you can ask google for pics and photos of it plus it has a new facade on it put on a few years ago🙂

@AidanEyewitness

8 ай бұрын

@@gerarddeegan1164 I already have my own photos of it, as I went to visit Cork County Hall for my second Cork video kzread.info/dash/bejne/c4Kbu82Akpe6cbQ.html

Sorry,but the county hall on the western rd was the tallest building in Ireland for many years then the Elysian Tower was built and took the honour. Welcome to our city🇮🇪🕊✝️🙏☘️

@AidanEyewitness

9 ай бұрын

Yes, I found that out after making the video and I featured County Hall in my second Cork video, which unfortunately did not attract many views, I'm not sure why. Still many thanks for pointing it out. I am going to try to check my facts more thoroughly. Many apologies for the error.

Auden you may like to know that Cork has had the longest and shortest funerals ever, the shortest was the caretaker of Curraghkippane graveyard, who was buried at the back of his house,the little house still stands today, and the longest was a merchant seaman who died aboard his ship near South America they had to sail west to fulfill delivery obligations, both were buried at Curraghkippane 🇮🇪

@AidanEyewitness

9 ай бұрын

I didn't know those facts! Very interesting. Funerals are part of Irish culture!

Next come to Limerick via Shannon airport 😁

@AidanEyewitness

6 ай бұрын

I am planning to do that. Can you suggest any interesting projects I should look at? Many thanks!

@paraic9163

6 ай бұрын

@@AidanEyewitness Sure! Along the river is quite modern with our ‘twin towers’ of the Riverpoint and Clayton hotels dominating the skyline. The most recent addition is the 1BQ building which mixes the new on the riverside with the old on the Henry street side (the street parallel to the river). Henry street also has lots of that mix too with the Modern Savoy hotel connected to an old grain store building. The gardens international also has the old façade with the modern building behind it, also just recently completed. The new International rugby experience building dominates the main street, O’ Connell street, also opened last year. The biggest project in construction at the moment is the opera square project which will include a high rise. The first phase is due to complete by 2025. The cleeve’s site on the other side of the river is a closed down condensed milk factory and that is muted as a big development too but construction hasn’t begun yet. I would also recommend heading out to Castletroy in the suburbs to visit the University of Limerick which is very young (around 50 years old) and so has some very striking modern architecture, especially on the North campus as you walk over the amazing living bridge. As you’re out there, you could also check out the new Towlerton development. This is a huge new neighbourhood that already has a school built and a new private hospital with a landmark design is currently under construction. Looking forward to the video! Oh and if you really want a dramatic example of old mixed with new, King John's castle is connected to a modern visitors centre!

I've never been to Cork, I don't know what the size of the surrounding areas are, unlike Greater Manchester with a population of nearly 3 million, so I don't think you can compare one with the other as Greater Manchester has nearly half the population of the Republic of Ireland, the other half are here

@AidanEyewitness

Жыл бұрын

Well you have a very Irish name! Within Ireland and on an Irish scales, Cork is equivalent to Manchester as it’s the counterweight to the larger capital city in another part of the country that likes to do things differently. As for Irish emigration, I recently heard on RTE radio that the number of Irish people in GB has fallen sharply. The peak year was 1961. My parents emigrated from Co. Limerick in the 1950s.

@davidpryle3935

Жыл бұрын

It all depends on how you look at these things of course, but most people I know, would regard Belfast as the second city of Ireland. In fact at the time of partition, Belfast was the biggest city in Ireland, although Dublin has long ago regained its preeminence. The Obel tower in Belfast is also the tallest building in Ireland. Cork looks well too of course, but I think “southern capital” is a more apt title than second city.

The Prism should be a able to hold many Phrismers

@AidanEyewitness

9 ай бұрын

Ha ha, sometimes I wonder if that was a good choice of name!

Is the weather better in Cork than in other parts of Ireland?

@AidanEyewitness

Жыл бұрын

I don’t live in Cork, so can’t comment personally, however the weather in Ireland is generally very changeable. Can any Cork residents say if the weather in Cork is better than in other parts of Ireland?

@CinCee-

Жыл бұрын

@@AidanEyewitness I figured because its in the south and not on that western atlantic coast it might have decent weather

@AidanEyewitness

Жыл бұрын

@@CinCee- Could be but I doubt if it’s much different to the rest of Ireland: changeable, often windy with lots of rain. There was a sudden heavy downpour when I was in nearby Kinsale.

@CinCee-

Жыл бұрын

@@AidanEyewitness What about in England what area has the best weather

@AidanORourke

Жыл бұрын

@@CinCee- The rainfall in the south is slightly less than in the north and in Scotland. Some places have lots of rain, the Lake District for instance. in Scotland the temperatures can be lower in the winter, especially in the Highlands. Maybe Devon and Cornwall have slightly more sunshine - they talk about he Cornish Riviera. But County Kerry can also be mild because of the Gulf Stream. I would say the weather throughout Ireland and Britain is similar and doesn't vary much. It's changeable, mild, often rainy north-west European weather, similar to northern France, Belgium and the Netherlands.

I had no idea there was a Church of Ireland.

@AidanEyewitness

2 жыл бұрын

Yes it is affiliated to the Church of England and is Anglican or Protestant. The ironic thing is that the Church of Ireland churches are often bigger and more imposing than the Catholic ones. That’s because the Catholic Church was once persecuted in Ireland (and Britain) even though the vast majority of the Irish people were Roman Catholic. Catholic emancipation came in 1829 though restrictions continued for many years.

Those 'wraparound' buildings you showed in the video can be a practical yet goodlooking compromise between the old and the new; just the same I would be rather lairy of the practice becoming the default solution when a developer wishes to build on a site which is already occupied by an older structure of (one presumes) considerable architectural merit. One could very easily envision bored councillors habitually rubber stamping unimaginative and unsympathetic workarounds of this kind proposed by developers who in turn are trying to satisfy the planning 'guidelines' of intransigent and overly conservative local authorities who have a tendency to fetishize older buildings, or perhaps their rarer counterpart, those municipalities that latch on to every fashionable trend that comes along, when the tougher but perhaps more suitable answer would be to 'man up', come out squarely in favour of either the old building _or_ the new proposal, and stand resolutely over your decision - otherwise I fear that for every elegant marriage between the venerable and the innovative we will be beset by God knows how many monstrosities that are an assault on all decent sensibilities, _cf._ the example of the old EBS Building Society's offices on Dublin's Westmoreland St. (now a computer college, CCT, and a Starbucks), an unclean and unnatural union surely 'sanctified' by Lucifer himself! Just on another point; regarding the proposed office tower you mention towards the end of the video, I think I can confidently wager a week's wages that it will never be built, at least not in the form envisioned. Ireland is not a country that has a particular need of true skyscrapers, and our few forays into high~rise public housing - Ballymun and Inchicore, especially - have been disastrous ("The Screaming and Crying in the High Rise Flats" - Bob Geldof; "I See Seven Towers but Only One Way Out" - Bono). That's not to say though that Ireland doesn't need denser - and *more,* much more - housing. Our cities are few and relatively small, and with the Industrial Revolution having passed us (in the Republic) by for geological and political (for which read, 'The Brits'! 👿😉) reasons we lack the Coronation St. style row housing typical of places like Manchester, or for that matter, Belfast, and as such Dublin (particularly) sprawls in a positively American manner. Unfortunately the long~standing insistence of our middle class house buying public on detached or semi~detatched homes standing on ⅛ or ¼ of an acre, and the hysterical knee~jerk reaction of councillors and planners to anything over ½ a dozen storeys or so, and of course the ever present "NIMBY's", mean that this isn't likely to change anytime soon. Cork's tendency to compete with Dublin means the tower isn't _entirely_ without a chance, but not at 30 storeys. In much the same way that haggling has been conducted since time immemorial, developers routinely submit proposals for office blocks or 'condos' with maybe twice the amount of floors needed, or perhaps even _wanted,_ knowing their plans will be knocked back at the proposed heights, 'bungs' notwithstanding. They _might_ just be allowed to go ahead in considerably truncated form, maybe at ½ or ⅗ the heights talked about; and this, of course, is factored in to the proposals as. Of course, when one takes into account the boom/bust cycle which seems to hit here even harder than most places, it's probably all moot anyway! As a final sidenote, it might interest readers to know that the Cork City Hall was actually built by _the British_ as, effectively, reparation for the hated - and feared - paramilitaries known as the Black & Tans having burnt it [EDIT: The old one, that is], and much of the rest of the City Centre, to the ground during the War of Independence. To be fair to the British though, it is quite a fine City Hall... Not to mention, who ever heard of _the IRA_ rebuilding anything _they_ ever blew up in Britain?! OK, yes, IRA operatives are probably responsible for building ½ of London and Birmingham, even as they most probably continued to collect their dole payments - but that isn't _quite_ what I meant!

@AidanEyewitness

Жыл бұрын

I have to say, the comments on my channel are the best written and most thoughtful! Your comment proves my point. Yes, Dublin has quite a different look to Belfast, which I think looks quite like Manchester. The flats in Ballymun have not been a success, like similar in Manchester. That's very interesting, developers submitting plans higher than needed so they will be knocked back. Is that what happened with the Bank of Ireland - the controversial building in the centre of Dublin that came out higher than the allowed height - ? It's recently been renovated and turned into a commercial office building. Part of the legac of architect Sam Stephenson (1933-2006). I didn't realise that about Cork city hall. So you dislike that building on D'Olier Street - the one with the classic facade flanked by modern glass on either side - (also by SS) I'm going to feature it in an upcoming video on modern architecture in Dublin - thanks for pointing it out to me. I once took a picture of myself in the mirrored glass - I was trying out my new camera. Well there's too much in your comment for me to reply to in detail but thank you very much indeed for taking the time to author this excellent piece of writing, which deserves a prize!

@AidanEyewitness

Жыл бұрын

Hello again, Richie, I would like to quote a few words from your excellent contribution above in my next video, which is on Dublin's modern architectural highlights and horrors. After you mentioned the EBS building, I thought, I must feature it. I would like to use these words of yours" "An unclean and unnatural union surely 'sanctified' by Lucifer himself!". Is it okay to write these words on screen in the video, also quoting them in the voiceover. Shall I credit you by your name? Many thanks!

@richiehoyt8487

Жыл бұрын

@@AidanEyewitness Aidan, I'm so sorry - as I write this, I'm practically chewing my knuckles with embarrassment verging on mortification, having left your _two_ informative and extraordinarily generous replies to my initial comment kinda hanging! I have some difficulty imagining that my swipe at the (old) EBS building could be that badly needed for inclusion in your forthcoming Dublin video, but nonetheless it's my fervent hope that my failure to do you the courtesy of replying to your request in timely fashion hasn't nawsed up your plans too much. In my defence, I did make a couple of attempts - _earnest attempts_ - at getting back to you when KZread (or more likely, my phone, which I'm coming more and more to regard as something of a 'hostile witness') caused my efforts to vanish unfinished into some uncharted dimension! Oh Well, better to lose an _un_ finished comment than a finished one I suppose! And then, of course, it became kind of _a 'thing'..!_ Whatever about any of that, though, you'll be neither 'shocked' nor 'stunned', I'm sure, to learn that I was that kid who invariably was doing his homework on the bus into school (if I did it at all!) and who still couldn't organize himself to send his Christmas 'Thank You' letters by the time his birthday rolled around in February, much to the annoyance and embarrassment of his (my) parents! As to your request, yes, _of course_ you can quote me, and I'll be quite happy to cop the responsibility for my little wisecrack... Hell, Richie's not even my real name! (The reasons for that are entirely innocent, though maybe too complicated to get into here.) Equally, you can attribute it to that incorrigible old recidivist, "One of my subscribers", or you can have it for yourself, for that matter - although I suspect you're rather more sympathetic to that particular Frankenbuilding than I am! With regard to some of the other points you brought up, I may have to come back to some of them another day because I don't know if this is a handicap that everybody has to labour under, but my phone doesn't allow me to refer back to comments made earlier, be they by you, me, or anyone else, when writing a reply in the KZread comments -- not without losing that reply, anyway; and my memory, I'm afraid, is not what it used to be - well i.i.r.c! 🙄🤦 However, regarding the Bank of Ireland building going overheight; before I actually address your question about that, I ought to clarify a couple of things from the get~go; *One:* I have no grounding in architecture _whatever,_ other than that ubiquitous qualification, Armchair Expertise! I am as much of an authority on the subject as your new king, and just as opinionated! As someone famous once said about art, "I may not know much about (it), but I know what I like!" And *Two,* Partly because I'm afraid I wasn't 'up' on Sam Stephenson, and partly because I was 'away' for a couple of years, (hospital, not prison!) I was labouring under a bit of a misunderstanding. I was tbh rather at a loss as regards the specifics of your question but because of the way you put it, I interpreted it as a sort of 'Gotcha!' - as in "Well, the Bank of Ireland came out _taller_ than what the planners had signed off on, so what does your 'Bid high' theory have to say about _that.?!_ " (Although, to be fair, without the "Nya Nya Na~Nya Nyah!" overtones!) Y'see, what it was, was, I had heard nothing about any big, new Bank of Ireland building going up in Dublin, still less any planning rows surrounding it. All I could figure was, being tucked out of the way for 2½ years in a 'transitional care unit' (think prison - but with biscuits!) during the lockdowns and everything as well, where, more - or - less voluntarily, I wasn't paying much attention to the media ("... during the period ending 12 midnight Tuesday, 17 people have died and a further 463 were admitted to hospital as a result of Covid". Yeah, Grreat..!) Well - I guess it must have just slipped past me! Which wasn't impossible; it seems like there's always some new load of offices or apartment block going up or being proposed down the Docklands somewhere, invariably with the attendant tug - of war between the planners and developers and you just kind of tune it out. But still... What you were describing sounded like something I ought to have heard about; and, besides, as strange as it might sound in a country of builders, 2½ years sounds a bit fast for a building of that sort to go up, even without the usual planning traumas and what - have - you... and during Covid _as well?_ Clearly it was time to consult The Oracle... (Has to be said - for all that it's a pain in the a7se, Google is a bona fide miracle!) So: OK, that's the skinny on Sam Stephenson... Bank... Dame St... Oh..! OHH!! _That_ 'Bank of Ireland..! Turns out that _your_ 'Bank of Ireland' is not the same as _my_ Bank of Ireland. What *seems* to have happened is that you were thinking of Dublin's equivalent to the Bank of England, which one might reasonably expect to be called the "Bank of Ireland"; whereas I was I was thinking of Ireland's oldest and largest - afaik - _retail,_ high street bank, indeed for all I know, they might well be older than the state, which would explain how they got 'dibs' on the name, that name being (be prepared to *not* be surprised) - the "Bank of Ireland"! So, while you were thinking 'Threadneedle St.' I was thinking 'Nat West Tower', or rather, the Nat West Tower's elusive Dublin 'little Bruv'! Mystery solved, then - you were talking about the Central Bank, on Dame St... or what I continue to think of as the Central Bank, though they actually moved out of the building, I guess, about 4 or 5 years ago. (It's now being refurbished. You're aware of all this, of course!). For those who don't know, it's a 12 story (give or take) Brutalist structure, smack - dab in the middle of town, not far from Dublin Castle and in the heart of the city's nightlife *>`blechh‘

Corks quite a small city & that Tower just looks stupid & looks out of place it doesn't suit cork..

@AidanEyewitness

2 жыл бұрын

Yes, to me when I see a single tall building in a small city it looks like a folly or vanity project by a local ‘big shot’

@leevancleef451

2 жыл бұрын

@@AidanEyewitness it looks like a office tower probably more suited in the Docklands or manchester.. Cork probably wants the title back from Dublin...

@osama1929

2 жыл бұрын

who knows that might pave the way for even taller buildings around it in the future.

@AidanEyewitness

2 жыл бұрын

@@osama1929 It could but as someone remarked, the height of buildings is generally determined by the level of economic activity. I will be interested to see how things pan out! Many thanks for your comment!

@Irish780

Жыл бұрын

Actually Cork is the biggest county in Ireland I'm not sure it's city is as small as you are saying 😂

Sorry, here I am again, the church you referred to as Christ church,is actually the church of the Holy Trinity 😘

@AidanEyewitness

9 ай бұрын

Oh dear, another error - I do make them. I have no proofreader to check - apart from people in the comments and then it's too late! Many thanks for pointing out the error!

just saw this. Firstly, well done. But one small tip for any future commentary, 'southern Ireland' does not exist! When speaking of the RoI say simply Ireland. No Irish person describes their country as 'souther Ireland...and yes, I guess in the UK there might be confusion' about terms but certainly post Brexit I think it's high time people stopped using the term. If your efforts are to inform and educate, then it's Ireland, or if referring to the 6 counties in the north, 'northern ireland ...but as I say, saying 'southern Ireland is an immediate give-away that you don't know...really, where you are. And I say this with respect. Well done again.

@AidanEyewitness

8 ай бұрын

I did not use the term 'southern Ireland' in the script! I would never use that term, and I get very annoyed when ignorant people, often from England, use those words. In the script, I said let's call the city of Cork Ireland's "southern capital". Ireland can be referred to as Republic of Ireland or Irish Republic, but the official name - as stated on my Irish passport - is Ireland - or in Irish Éire. This was drilled into me from birth, being brought up in England by Irish parents (from Co Limerick). Anyhow, many thanks for the positive comments. That video has had good feedback. Have you seen the follow up video - linked at the end? Best wishes and thanks for the feedback!

@johndevoy5792

8 ай бұрын

thank you for replying Aidan. Yes, it was probably a slip of the tongue, but actually you did say 'I took a day trip to Cork in Southern Ireland,' Look, it's nothing really and I take your point that you are fully aware of the language around this. Btw, sorry, I didn't and don't mean to make a mountain from a mole hill here. You've better things to be getting on with I'm sure. Thanks agin for getting back and wish you the best with you're work. Oh, do return to Cork in a few year when they 'finally' finally get the long-drawn out 6,000 seater conference centre done plus all the other stuff in the city pipeline! @@AidanEyewitness

@AidanEyewitness

8 ай бұрын

@@johndevoy5792 Well that would be a small S, as I was referring to the region, not the state! I took a day trip to Galway in western Ireland - or would people probably say ‘the west of Ireland’ anyhow no more nitpicking! I look forward to returning to Cork soon! Very best wishes!!!

@johndevoy5792

8 ай бұрын

ah, Galway, city of my birth! No, people would say neither, just Galway. @@AidanEyewitness

@AidanEyewitness

8 ай бұрын

For the record I did not use the phrase ‘Southern Ireland’ in this video. I have checked the subtitles file and played the video through.

Thank you for explaing the wordplay with welcome to Kyiv🥹💞 I wouldn’t notice it on my own but now I’ll make sure to explain it to other fellow Ukrainians who has taken refuge in Cork. And the Art Deco church looks interesting both inside and out

@AidanEyewitness

Жыл бұрын

Many thanks for that feedback. I am a linguist so I like to teach people about languages - principally German and English. The art deco church of Christ the King is marvellous! Many thanks Aidan. PS Have you seen my video on Odesa and Liverpool? Take a look at my videos. :)