The West Cork Art Centre has this year created an online space to bring the Members and Friends Exhibition to the public and showcase the work of artists from across West Cork and beyond. The Members Exhibition has been running at West Cork Arts Centre for 35 years, displaying the […]
Culture
Mr Michael Ring TD, Minister for Rural and Community Development, has announced a further investment of €200,000 to support the provision of additional eBooks and eAudiobooks in order to meet the significant increase in demand for access to the public library online service during the COVID-19 crisis. This is in […]
Featuring MuRli, Swimmers Jackson, Ger Wolfe, Elly O’Keefe & more Every night at 9.30pm and 8pm on Sundays Live stream gigs via Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DeBarrasClon/ The popular DeBarra’s Sitting Room to Sitting Room Sessions continue bringing you a little bit of comfort and consistency in a world of uncertainty. Tune in […]
In their first off-site project since the crisis began, the Glucksman is presenting the billboard project New Light, running from June 10-24, as part of the vibrant ethos of Cork Midsummer. In venturing outside after a period of confinement and isolation, we take notice of our surroundings in different ways. We […]
Writers residing in Munster are invited to enter the 2020 J G Farrell Fiction Award – an award is for the best opening chapter of a novel-in-progress. The prize is a place on the West Cork Literary Festival’s online Novel with Paul McVeigh workshop. This workshop was originally due to take place as […]
100 years ago this June, Bantry was a dangerous place to be. Pauline Murphy recounts how death and destruction marred the West Cork town that summer. It all began with the killing of RIC Constable Thomas King on June 12, 1920. A native of Roundstone in Co. Galway, Constable King […]
