Like the traditional Irish Wake and the Jewish custom of ‘sitting shiva’, Dia de Los Muertos, also known as Mexico’s Day(s) of the Dead, has always stood out to me as a uniquely rich and beautiful tradition honouring both the living and the dead for extended periods of time. Traditionally […]
West Cork’s Kate Ryan has scooped the award for Food Writing at the second annual Irish Food Writing Awards. Over 75 award finalists attended from throughout the island of Ireland, competing for the 20 awards on offer covering Irish food and drink journalism, cookbooks, feature writing, blogging, podcasting, photography and […]
Ferns depict the seasons in such a visually prominent way. The way they uncurl in the spring has such an air of drama about it, and when they have stopped uncurling and have reached full height, we know summer is really here, and then from late summer we get the […]
For years Kinsale residents have been complaining about really bad odours and noise coming from the town’s waste water treatment plant and the EPA have now backed up their complaints in a new report criticising the continuous and ongoing breaches at the plant. The EPA has questioned the capacity of […]
This month marks the passing of century since a day-long battle played out in the neighbouring West Cork villages of Enniskeane and Ballineen. Pauline Murphy tells us more about November 4, 1922, when a fierce fight took place between large parties of Anti-Treaty IRA volunteers and Free State troops, resulting […]
In a special series, Holger Smyth of Inanna Rare Books (Skibbereen) revisits houses shown in the rare Hodges publication ‘Cork and County Cork in the Twentieth Century’. Episode 1: Bridgemount (Dunmanway)– From the O’Sullivan Beara to german bakery Original entry in Hodges, 1911: “Bridgemount is the Residence of Dr.J.J.O’Callaghan, and […]