John X Miller: Cork Vision Centre, Marriage, St Peter’s Church, Supernatural,

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Title

John X Miller: Cork Vision Centre, Marriage, St Peter’s Church, Supernatural,

Subject

Cork's Built Heritage

Description

John talks about the history and present role of Cork’s Vision Centre.
The building was originally St Peter’s Church, completed in 1788, and sold into private hands in 1949, after which it fell into disrepair. It was restored by Cork Corporation and went on to house the Cork Vision Centre, which opened in 1998.
He explains that the Centre hosts art exhibitions and other cultural events, as well as acting as an unofficial tourist office. He comments on the restoration of its monument to Thomas Dean, Mayor of Cork. He recounts a supernatural story to do with the Centre.

Note: this interview was conducted for the DVD If the Walls Could Talk.

Date

24 July 2013

Identifier

CFP_SR00507_miller_2013

Coverage

Cork City; Ireland; Built Heritage; 1770s-200Os;

Relation


Published Material:

If the Wall Could Talk: Stories Of Cork's Heritage (2013) DVD

If the Stones Could Speak: More stories from Cork's heritage (2015) DVD

Source

Cork Folklore Project Audio Archive

Rights

Cork Folklore Project

Language

English

Type

Sound

Format

1 .wav File

Interviewee

Interviewer

Duration

22m 15s

Location

Vision Centre, St Peter's Church, North Main St, Cork City, Cork, Ireland.

Original Format

.wav

Bit Rate/Frequency

24bit / 48kHz

Transcription

The following is a short extract from the interview transcript, copyright of the Cork Folklore Project. If you wish to access further archival material please contact CFP, folklorearchive@gmail.com


MW That’s interesting, yeah, very good. Em alright one thing I ask everyone, this sounds a bit odd or strange, but is there any superstitions, myths, legends, anecdotes, anything associated specifically with this building?

JM Well there, there, there, there’s none that eh that we know of except of course we’ve heard the usual, that it’s haunted and so forth. But there is one thing that I can attest to and so can Lorraine eh who eh started basically I s -- I s-- I was the first personally I recruited the staff then and she was one of the first recruitees that we had and now she’s the administrator of the Centre. But when we were, when we were due to open to the public, we had a very strange eh, eh -- and I can absolutely attest to it myself, I’m a fairly sceptical individual in relation to paranormal and so forth but we came in, in one morning and there was a half-moon of eh Victorian pennies. Em the strange thing about this was that they were inside the locked door, so you have your door, and you have your glass doors and they’re both locked, and we have no idea how they got there and they were all dated you know eh they were all obviously Victorian but they don’t relate to any particular date in the history of the church and we’ve no idea how they got there, none of the-- no idea. So Lorraine would be, would be probably thinking that some ghost dropped them there or whatever but we just were, there was no break-in, no nothing, and they were just there in a in a in a semi-circle or half-moon.

MW That’s amazing, isn’t it?

JM So that’s it. That’s the only tale I can tell you--

Citation

Cork Folklore Project, “John X Miller: Cork Vision Centre, Marriage, St Peter’s Church, Supernatural,,” accessed March 28, 2024, https://corkfolklore.org/archivecatalolgue/document/17.