John T Collins was a Cork Historian, he was associated with Paddy O’Keeffe in Bantry, Bernard O’Regan in Aughadown/Skibbereen and Father Walsh in Cork. Extracts of is correspondence with the Paddy O’Keeffe papers in the Cork Archives show a remarkable grasp of Cork History he was a regular newspaper contributor in the 1950s and 1960s.
This is from Richard Hayward Book on Cork and Munster 1964 with illustration by Raymond Piper:
John T Collins 18th century Cork Newspaper Extracts:
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