Sunday Miscellany: Songs for a Burning City, by Ger Fitzgibbon

Entering into the experience of a city's destruction a century ago, through the imagination... Via Sunday Miscellany, listen to The Burning of Cork, and Songs for a Burning City, by Ger Fitzgibbon, above.

Two weeks to go before Christmas, but the town was not as busy as you might expect. The Coal Quay was emptying quickly, the last few holly-sellers trying to get rid of their bundles before closing up, and everyone huddled up against the cold and encroaching darkness.

Because everyone was anxious, like people awaiting the arrival of a storm...

Also on this programme: Declan Kiberd pays tribute to his uncle: Abbey actor, Irish Times journalist and hero of the Irish revival, Edward Keegan here and Síobhra Aiken trawls through the records of the Military Service Pension Collection, with disturbing results, in Irish Revolutionaries at the Gynaecologist's here

Listen to more from Sunday Miscellany here