Council Culture

An initiative unforeseen Supported by the Countess Aberdeen Motivated several politicians and were Encouraged to convene In the year of 1920 When issues were aplenty Delegates backed the Cork City charter And elected MacSwiney, our dear martyr Yet as many were to grieve Others would also leave They were faced with a new mandate Upon founding the Irish Free State However not everyone was happy And things got rather scrappy With views diverging ever-more Making it hard to keep the score The dust took a while to settle And tested our civic institutions’ mettle Though issues were left unsolved Causing city councils to be dissolved New problems were to be addressed That would get the people rousing Occupied with public works and housing Making the managers obsessed. That’s an oversimplification For a topic deserving of dilation An overview of a creation Being the Municipal Association