The Nano Nagle Place Podcast

In this episode we chat with CEO of Nano Nagle Place, Shane Clarke.

We get an insight into his career and experience before he took this role and he explains what drew him to it.

We also discuss how special the place and the people involved are to him, how it has developed since the doors opened and how the vision of the board comes to life each day through the people and all of the activities that take place at Nano Nagle Place.

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Michael O'Sullivan was appointed as CEO to oversee the construction and delivery of Nano Nagle Place, from a near derelict , but sacred site to what we know and enjoy today.

From taking an initial brief, gaining an understanding of what was required, building critical relationships with the Presentation congregation and appointing a team to look after and deliver each element of the project, and overcoming some big hurdles, Michael did a superb job before handing over the "operational reins" of Nano Nagle Place to CEO Shane Clarke.

He tells his story in this episode.

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Jim Corr, who had been the Lord Mayor of Cork city twice, took the role of Chairman of the Board of the new company with the responsibility of bringing the development of South Pres from concept stage to completion.

He chats about his personal connection to South Pres, the major hurdles faced with the development and in particular convincing the Presentation Congregation to invest in the School of Architecture, which was critical for the ongoing viability of the project.

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In this episode we chat with Sr. Mary Deane who was the Presentation Congregation Leader at the time when the South Pres development was being planned.

The ambitious plans required significant investment and the support and financial contributions from the international congregations were essential to the project.

Sr. Mary chats about the whole process, the different challenges faced and how international support was secured, which made Nano Nagle Place as we know it today possible.

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In this episode we chat with Sr. Mary Hoare who was the Provincial Leader of the Presentation Order during the development of Nano Nagle Place.

Interestingly, she now lives at the Nano Nagle Centre, at Ballygriffin in County Cork, which was the birthplace of Nano Nagle.

She chats about the dilemma of the crumbling but sacred South Pres site and some of the thinking and obstacles that they faced while they were deciding on what the crucial next steps should be.

She also chats about the Nano Nagle Centre.

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Sr. Mary Dinneen was a former Principal of the Secondary School at South Pres when it closed its doors in 1996.

In this episode we chat with the very special Sr. Mary about her life including entering South Pres as a young woman, when it was an enclosed order.

She speaks about her love of teaching and her pupils, the story of inner city life in Cork and desperately encouraging parents to keep their children in school to complete their education and how gradual societal changes occurred that eventually led to its closure.

We also talk about the transformation of the South Pres site to Nano Nagle Place.

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In this podcast walking tour we retrace Nano Nagle's steps from where she lived and had her first schools on Douglas Street, across the city via the Middle Parish where she had another school, up to Shandon where she had three more.

Your tour guides, Sr. Bride Given, a Presentation Sisters, and Dr Danielle O'Donovan, Programme Manager at Nano Nagle Place, guide you through Nano Nagle's Cork. We discuss how Nano Nagle changed the city, and how the city was changing around her as the eighteenth century progressed.

To use this podcast as a walking tour guide stand on the front plaza of Nano Nagle Place and press play!

Join historian of the burning of Cork Michael Lenihan and design historian Tom Spalding as they discuss the reaction to the burning of Cork city on 11 December 1920 and the reconstruction of the street.

This podcast can be used as a walking tour. To use it, stand outside The Savoy on St. Patrick's Street and press play!

Join historian of the burning of Cork Michael Lenihan and design historian Tom Spalding on St. Patrick's Street as they talk us through the events of the 11 December 1920. That winters night, half of St. Patrick's Street and Cork City Hall were purposely set on fire. Discover the who and the why of this terrible act of wanton destruction on the street where it happened.

You can use this podcast as a walking tour by standing in Daunt's Square and pressing play!