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Things going swell at the opera house

Archiseek / Ireland / News / 2000 / March 28 2000: Things going swell at the opera house

Unlike its predecessor, it has not won the affections of Cork people, but the new Cork Opera House may still become the subject of nostalgia. Arguably the ugliest blot on Cork's urban landscape is about to undergo its most dramatic makeover with demolition work beginning on the radiatorlike frontage to be replaced by a more curvaceous façade.

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