Over 200 films will screen at the First Cut Youth Film Festival (FCYFF) in March (7-11), including a film created by local Ukrainian teenagers (based in West Cork), residents from Direct Provision at Clonakilty Lodge and local young people from Clonakilty. The film ‘Practice Session’ was created at the end […]
Culture
Acclaimed singer-songwriters Victoria Keating and Aine O’Gorman have just released a song, on February 1, in honour of Brigid, the female patron saint of Ireland. The West Cork artists said they are thrilled to be releasing it on the first year that Brigid will be officially acknowledged with a national […]
Luminous green lichen sheathes the alder, like an exoskeleton of armoured plates and horns. Diamonds of water drip from the straggle of branches, wavering towards me as I look through the window pane. These past two months have been, for me, a time of poetry, of both writing it and […]
West Cork Music is delighted to announce its Spring Concert Series. Over four Sundays in February and March, St Brendan’s Church in Bantry will welcome top-class soloists and quartets. On Sunday 12 February at 3pm, violinists Paul Ezergailis and Siobhán Doyle, violists Ruth Gibson and Cian Ó Dúill, and cellists Brian O’Kane and Aoife Burke […]
An exhibition of photography by Richard Winfield, inspired by his fascination with ancient woodlands and derelict stone buildings and how they invoke the spirit of the past, takes place in Gallery Asna, Clonakilty this month. Woodlands are rich sources of folklore and tradition. From our island’s earliest times, trees have […]
There is a lot to be said about how fate or destiny, or whatever you want to call it, can take people in many different, surprising, and life-changing directions. For instance, if Colyne Laverriere hadn’t asked her mother for one more chance to stay in Ireland, and if her search […]