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 […]
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Though admitting to having “fallen into” doing music things, the pub Declan ran in Baltimore is where it all began for him. Having heard that Nigel Kennedy, the classical violin player was holidaying in West Cork, Declan fantasised about having the musician play in his pub. He devised the idea […]
The poignant and striking landscape of an 11,000 year-old submerged glacial woodland, The Gearagh/An Gaorthadh in Co. Cork is the point of departure for ‘Weathering’, a new work by director/choreographer Mary Wycherley, who grew up in Skibbereen and has had some familiarity with The Gearagh all her life. This hybrid […]
Though her surname might lead you to assume otherwise, Cecilia Scholte Lubberink is proudly Dunmanway born and bred. The artist’s deep love for her town meant there was no doubt about the location of ‘Le Chéile Arts’, her new shop that is dedicated to promoting the work of local artists, […]
Holger Smyth, Inanna Rare Books, Skibbereen, revisits houses shown in the rare Hodges publication ‘Cork and County Cork in the Twentieth Century’. Episode 3: Norton, Skibbereen, the home of solicitor and Teachta Dála, Jasper Travers Wolfe Norton, originally ‘Norton Cottage’, still towers prominently, overlooking the River Ilen and the West […]
The contribution of women in the War of Independence is not often highlighted, nor is their involvement in the Civil War. This month Pauline Murphy draws attention to Margaret Dunne, better known as Maggie, a farmer’s daughter from Cappaleigh, a townland of Adrigole on the Beara Peninsula. On April 8, […]