A familiar fixture on the Cork music scene, indie-folk musician and event facilitator Caoilian Sherlock, returns to DeBarra’s Folk Club in Clonakilty on June 25. With a debut album, ‘Teenage Jesus’ set for release on May 26 and an upcoming tour that will see him perform across the country with […]
Culture
‘Inanna Modern’, a new sub-division of Inanna Rare Books and Reader’s Garden in Skibbereen will hold its first art exhibition at Cnoc Buí in Unionhall from May 7 – 27. While visitors to Inanna’s beautiful location at Woodley House on Castletownshend Road are already familiar with their merchandise of historical […]
Currently on a UK tour playing keyboards for alternative folk singer Junior Brother from Kerry, the main man behind The Bonk, Phil Christie chats to Lauren Guillery. On May 14, Phil Christie will grace one of West Cork’s most intimate venues to promote the release of his second LP ‘Greater […]
A lavaic splash of cadmium red diffuses into a tar-enamelled sky, a plume of pale aqua blue breathes up and fractalizes into islands seen from above, and deep blue penumbras bleed into white heads of thunder. This is ‘Archipelago,’ a new exhibition by West Cork painter, Michael McSwiney, who shows […]
Holger Smyth, Inanna Rare Books, Skibbereen, revisits houses shown in the rare Hodges publication ‘Cork and County Cork in the Twentieth Century’. Episode 4: Garrettstown House, Ballinspittle / Kinsale. When you spend time in West Cork there is no escaping the remarkable history of the land in and around Kinsale. […]
Perched on the side of hill surrounded by bare rock and overlooking the breathtaking vastness of the Atlantic ocean, Danny and Geraldine Osborne’s home, a small renovated cottage, at one time could only be accessed by walking through the surrounding fields. It was this wildness and raw beauty that first […]