Traditional Irish music is a bit of a miracle. In many other Western European countries, homegrown music with roots that go back centuries (or even millennia) might be played at rural festivals and during cultural celebrations: A reminder of times long gone and largely obsolete. Here in West Cork and […]
Culture
Craig Cox reviews ‘All At Once Collapsing Together’, an exhibition of new work by Caoimhín Gaffney showing at The West Cork Arts Centre in Skibbereen. Using multi-screen film, photography, text and neon sculptures, shifting personifications of nature voice Gaffney’s concerns about the balance of influence between humans and the environment. […]
The Realism Now exhibition, currently showing in Barcelona’s MEAM Museum, showcases some of the world’s best contemporary figurative painters. Amongst them is the British painter, Edward Povey (b.1951), whose extraordinary brand of ‘emotional realism’ (the artist’s term) both resonates and extends the Western tradition, intimating and echoing painters as far […]
There is something about West Cork. It may be the landscape, or the people. It holds a powerful attraction. Katrina O’Kane was well aware of it as a child when, growing up in Belfast, her mother took her “down south” to visit a friend on their beautiful farm in Borlin […]
Jason Ward reviews Maria Doyle Kennedy at Levis’ in Ballydehob Our ideas of places we have never visited are often influenced by how we see them in movies, in books and on TV. My first ideas of life in Ireland were formed by the movie The Commitments. In 1991, I […]
Jason Ward reviews an event that took place at The Working Artists Studio in Ballydehob as part of the West Cork Feel Good Festival Everyone knows that live entertainment lifts the heart and nourishes the soul. Sharing a space with others while absorbing and enjoying lyrical, musical or dramatic skills […]