After a summer of near wall-to-wall sunshine, Clonakilty Film Club marks a return to cosy nights indoors with a superb selection from the best that world cinema has to offer. Over the autumn season the club will show six films fortnightly on Tuesdays to keep you entertained until Christmas. As […]
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DeBarras will play host to the incredible energy that is Xylouris White as part of this year’s Clonakilty Guitar Festival in September. This duo, a collaboration between Cretan lute player Georgios Xylouris and Australian drummer Jim White, play Greek folk music with fearless and joyous abandon, experimenting with a range of […]
West Cork Casting Studio in Dunmanway is all about family, connections and memories. “I am also about creating new memories,” says award-winning artist Maura O’Connell who captures both life and love in bespoke hand casting and jewellery pieces that are full of emotion. “Knowing that I am creating something that […]
Holger and Nicola Smyth’s home brings to mind a quote by American art historian Bernard Berenson “My house is a library with living rooms attached.” Every room and corner of their home, from floor to ceiling, is crammed with all manner of rare books…out-of-print, secondhand, antique gems of all genres, […]
There are many monuments commemorating events from the 1919-1923 period dotted along the N22. Midway between Macroom and Ballyvourney you will find two memorials at Carrigaphooca; a Celtic cross commemorating seven Free State soldiers who died in a mine explosion on September 15,1922 stands just feet away from a plaque […]