{"id":48141,"date":"2026-09-26T14:15:38","date_gmt":"2026-09-26T13:15:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=48141"},"modified":"2026-09-26T14:15:38","modified_gmt":"2026-09-26T13:15:38","slug":"ihbc-features-heritage-from-the-irish-doorstep-inside-tiny-cork-the-man-recreating-the-city-in-miniature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=48141","title":{"rendered":"IHBC features \u2018Heritage from the (Irish) doorstep\u2019: Inside \u2018Tiny Cork\u2019 &#8211; The man recreating the city in miniature"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A Cork man has found a very unusual way to celebrate the city &#8211; by recreating its buildings in miniature, right down to the tiniest details, reports <em>Cork Beo<\/em>, as Se\u00e1n, who has been making models as a hobby for years, has turned his attention to the buildings around him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em><u>Cork Beo<\/u><\/em> writes:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Known online as Tiny Cork, Se\u00e1n recreates recognisable Cork buildings as tiny models using materials including plastic, foam, paper and cardboard\u2026. he said\u2026\u2019\u2026now that I live in the middle of Cork City, it just sort of happened that I ended up looking around and seeing so many nice buildings that I was like, \u2018I wonder if I could give this a go?\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2026 \u2018I take an enormous amount of photos,\u2019 he said. \u2018My phone is absolutely filled with a ridiculous level of detail of photos of individual bricks and the shapes of gutters and just nonsense, things like that.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.corkbeo.ie\/news\/local-news\/gallery\/inside-tiny-cork-man-recreating-34586897\">Read more here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Cork man has found a very unusual way to celebrate the city &#8211; by recreating its buildings in miniature, right down to the tiniest details, reports Cork Beo, as Se\u00e1n, who has been making models as a hobby for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=48141\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1009,361],"class_list":["post-48141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ihbc-newsblog","tag-cork","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48141"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48142,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48141\/revisions\/48142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}