Arts & Entertainment - West Cork People

Colour Mantras: work from the Blue House Gallery

James Waller September, 2026

Colours crisp as daylight, edges seamlessly rendered. The prints on show at the Blue House Gallery in August breathed out the colour mantras of 20th century modernism. Edges both hard and soft, prismatic primaries, diffused tertiaries, colour field teasing landscape, landscape teasing colour field. Through various media, including carborundum, screen […]

Clonakilty Film Club returns for Autumn with strings attached

WCP Staff September, 2026

After a scorching summer, Clonakilty Film Club invites us to cosy autumn nights indoors with a carefully chosen selection from the best that world cinema offers. The club opens its autumn season on Tuesday September 22 with ‘Primavera’, an astounding feature debut by acclaimed opera director Damiano Michieletto. ‘Primavera’ is […]

A man for all musical seasons

Moze Jacobs September, 2026

Music is in Martin Vallely’s bloodline. However, while his wider family is very well-known in the traditional Irish music world, his own talent lay dormant for a long time writes Moze Jacobs. “In my immediate family there is hardly any music. Just one of my seven siblings plays some guitar. […]

Weathering the storms

Moze Jacobs July, 2026

Early last November, a beautiful black woman named Xania Monet made world history. Sort of. Her song, ‘How Was I Supposed to Know?’ entered the US Adult R&B Airplay chart at no. 30 and also charted no. 20 on Hot R&B Songs, which ranks the 25 most popular contemporary R&B […]

The Bayeux Tapestry: the art of continuous exposition

James Waller July, 2026

In my early twenties I developed a compositional structure which I consider to be a visual equivalent to a musical fugue. As a structure it is modular and capable, theoretically at least, of infinite extension. The temptation was then (and still is) to see how long I could make it. […]

Photography, ships and the myth of ‘Lange Wapper’

James Waller July, 2026

On a recent trip to Antwerp my intrepid partner and I found ourselves in hardhats traversing the city’s historic canals. But for flash lights we were in darkness, walking in a line along a canal bed, for the waterways, known as ‘ruien,’ had been vaulted over, enclosed, for many hundreds […]

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