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Thursday, 5th


July 2018 Beginners Photography Course Just a Click Away by CLAIRE TD O’DONOGHUE The East Cork Camera


Group will host a Begin- ners Photography course which commences in Mid- leton this Sunday, 8 July. The class will meet at the Midleton Park Hotel at 10am and receive a short theory of photography


with topics such as using the correct exposures, depth of field and more. From there, the group will venture out and about for practical work and instruc- tion from experienced pho- tographers in the group. The two-hour long class will continue over the next 6 weeks, with a break on the August Bank Holiday


Sunday. Cork Classes will re-


sume the following Sunday. Speaking with The East Journal, Denis


Barry (PRO of the East Cork Camera Group) said, “With regard to equipment needed, the cover


course general will photogra-


phy at first which would be applicable to the use of a camera phone. However,


as the course gets more


advanced, we recommend using a decent, compact, mirrorless camera or DSLR (Digitial Single Lens Reflex) camera.” The course, a must for all photography


enthusi-


asts or those looking for a fun way to spend Summer Sunday mornings, costs just €60 and includes not


only professional instruc- tion and feedback but 6 months membership of the East Cork Camera Group. “Places are limited”, ex- plained Denis, “and to sign up or for more details, please contact us through Facebook or email pro@ eastcorkcameragroup. ie”


CONTACT MY CONSTITUENCY OFFICE FOR ADVICE AND ASSISTANCE: 29 St Mary’s Road, Midleton Tel: 021 463 2867 Email: david.stanton@oir.ie Web: www.stanton.ie


Find me on • Ballycotton Sunrise (courtesy of East Cork Camera Group)


Midleton Library to Host Exhibition Portraits Women of Cork and the US Navy


by SEAMUS WHELEHAN


A photographic exhibi- tion opening in Midleton next month focuses on the rarely seen women’s per- spective on the First World War. The


exhibition, creat-


ed by Historian Damian Shiels, opens at 12:15pm on 21 July and features over 100 images of Irish war brides who wed US Sailors. East Cork’s history has


always ebbed and flowed through its harbour, link- ing the island town with many world events, such as the First World War and the sinking of the Lusita- nia on 7 May 1915. The bombing of the ves-


sel brought the ravages of war home to Lower Har- bour communities such as Cobh, Aghada and White- gate, with many local women joining the 6,000 Irish Red Cross nurses to aid the war effort on the front lines in Flanders.


Two years later, on the 6


April 1917, US President Woodrow Wilson brought America into the War of Nations as a direct


re-


sponse to Germany’s indis- criminate attack on ships such as the Lusitania. On 4 May 1917 a flotilla


of 6 US destroyers led by USS Wadsworth


arrived


in the harbour area under Commander Joseph Taus- sig.


On arrival in the Port,


the van guard’s command- er met with the Royal Na- vy’s admiral Bailey who enquired


Commander Taussig


responded “we are ready now Sir” which became enshrined in US Naval folklore. At one point, up to 92 American vessels were based around Cork Har- bour.


Haulbowline Island was


used as a resupply and tor- pedo repair base for the


how long the


American Navy needed to prepare for operations at sea.


US Naval fleet. A United States Naval Air Service Seaplane base was operational at Agha- da.


A submarine chaser


base was located at Glen- brook.


A US Naval Store was based in Cobh with a base hospital


operational Whitepoint. Among those depicted


in the exhibition is 19 year old Mary Josephine Dea from Youghal


who mar-


ried her husband, Eugene Clark from Floyd County, Iowa, a first class gunners mate on board USS Shaw. Known locally as Mollie, she grew up on Kenny’s Lane where


her


worked as a carrier. 22 Year


Collins married


Machinist’s mate, Joseph Leonard Becker


from


Rochester. The Youghal woman had been working as a dressmaker before her marriage. Her father was a shoemaker on South Main Street.


at 22 Year old Youghal


woman, Annie Cronin, originally from Cross Street married US Navy Watertender Edward Ross Bingham. 21 Year old Veroni-


ca Harris from Corkbeg Whitegate, married Chief Electrician Francis Cody Harris in Aghada. 22 Year


Mary Lynch Knockgriffin, Midleton, known as Brid- ie, married George Daniel Mahony a cook on board USS Imperator. 23 Year old


old Bridget


Nellie father


old Letitia Chief


Burns, Cobh married Sea- man Charles Dewey An- derson, of Green County Pennsylvania. 17 Year old Mary Jose- phine Donovan married Chief Quartermaster Ir- win Horn of the USS Cor- sair. Mr Irwin was born in Reading Pennsylvania. 18 Year old Gertrude


Clifford, Cobh, married James Caruso from Hig- ginsville New York, a Fire- man First Class on the USS Corsair.


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