1961: Frank O’Connor’s Cork | Monitor BBC Broadcast

Frank O’Connor, the celebrated Irish short-story writer, novelist, essayist, and poet, revisits the city of his birth, where he lived for twenty-eight years and which provides the setting or inspiration for many of his stories. He speaks to Huw Wheldon about what Cork means to him, reflects on his childhood there and why he left. He considers the importance of provincial cities like Cork to the literary world – cities that have fired the imagination of so many writers. Clip taken from Monitor, originally broadcast on BBC Television, 19 November, 1961, now on their YouTube archive.