{"id":11087,"date":"2025-10-15T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/?p=11087"},"modified":"2025-10-12T17:09:59","modified_gmt":"2025-10-12T16:09:59","slug":"early-cork-series-romantic-hour-on-radio-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/early-cork-series-romantic-hour-on-radio-city\/","title":{"rendered":"Early Cork series: Romantic Hour on Radio City"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_7785\"><!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-11087-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/19810125_R_City_Cork_Pat_ORourke_LOD.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/19810125_R_City_Cork_Pat_ORourke_LOD.mp3\">https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/19810125_R_City_Cork_Pat_ORourke_LOD.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/19810125_R_City_Cork_Pat_ORourke_LOD.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/?powerpress_pinw=11087-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/19810125_R_City_Cork_Pat_ORourke_LOD.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"19810125_R_City_Cork_Pat_ORourke_LOD.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"992\" height=\"879\" src=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/19810103_Pat_ORourke_Lilian_LOD.jpg\" alt=\"Early Cork series: Romantic Hour on Radio City\" class=\"wp-image-10974\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/19810103_Pat_ORourke_Lilian_LOD.jpg 992w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/19810103_Pat_ORourke_Lilian_LOD-300x266.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/19810103_Pat_ORourke_Lilian_LOD-768x681.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Pat O&#8217;Rourke with Lilian McCarthy (O&#8217;Donoghue) in 1981 (courtesy of Lilian). <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This recording of Cork pirate Radio City was made early in 1981. It features Pat O\u2019Rourke with his Sunday <em>Romantic Hour<\/em>, wrapping up weekend programmes on the station. The phones are out of order but Pat invites listeners to contact Radio City by post to 27 Parnell Place in Cork. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The tape was made from about 1800 on 25<sup>th<\/sup> January 1981 from 95.7 FM and contains some edits. Audio quality is mixed with distortion in places and some cassette wobble. Thanks to Lilian O\u2019Donoghue for the donation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This recording of Cork pirate Radio City was made early in 1981. It features Pat O\u2019Rourke with his Sunday Romantic Hour, wrapping up weekend programmes on the station. The phones are out of order but Pat invites listeners to contact Radio City by post to 27 Parnell Place in Cork. The tape was made from &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/early-cork-series-romantic-hour-on-radio-city\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Early Cork series: Romantic Hour on Radio City&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,152],"tags":[486,151,550,556,777],"class_list":["post-11087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-airchecks","category-full-recordings","tag-486","tag-cork","tag-early-cork-series","tag-pat-orourke","tag-radio-city-cork"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Early Cork series: Romantic Hour on Radio City - Irish Pirate Radio Audio Archive<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/early-cork-series-romantic-hour-on-radio-city\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Early Cork series: Romantic Hour on Radio City - Irish Pirate Radio Audio Archive\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"This recording of Cork pirate Radio City was made early in 1981. 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