Back to the future: Cork City planner laid the foundations for a better city in 1922
Urban regeneration: Children from the tenements of the Marsh area of Cork City help bring family possessions to their new homes in Gurranabraher in 1934. Irish Examiner Archive
At the end of the Civil War, the centre of Cork City remained a ruined battleground — the physical, emotional, and financial scars of the burning and the destruction of the main streets still too visible.
There had been some minor movement on resolving compensation claims by businesses following military action under martial law between January 21, 1919, and July 11, 1921. Consequently, the Compensation (Ireland) Commission was established by Westminster and Irish Provisional Governments respectively in early 1922.
