Moze Jacobs chats to Seamus Poillot who runs Qualiphaunt, an initiative offering inexperienced players or musicians the opportunity to perform on stage at the renowned DeBarras Folk Club in Clonakilty There is something about DeBarra’s Folk Club in West Cork that stirs up echoes of a glorious rock music past. […]

A living line, trembling with energy. The feeling which charges the hand: a poignant burst, guiding the etching needle, twisting, erupting, flicking and flowing, etching death into a copper plate. Francisco Goya’s series of etchings, ‘The Disasters of War’ (1810-1820), is an arguably unequaled record of cruelty, in the medium of […]

At the start of a sultry August the West Cork arts scene is brimming with life. Cnoc Bui, in Union Hall, is once more hosting West Cork Creates, Working Artist Studios, in Ballydehob, boasts a fabulous members exhibition, and the Blue House gallery, in Schull, is presenting a diverse show […]

There is no doubt whatsoever: Jack Lukeman aka Jack L has a great voice. It straddles four octaves and operates in a variety of keys, acrobatically. “One of the most distinctive and recognisable voices in Irish music over the past 20-odd years,” is how he is introduced at the start […]

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