Offering the best of professional dramatic performance, this year’s Fit-Up Theatre Festival runs from July 8 to August 3, in towns, villages and islands all over West Cork. With a nod to the tradition of Fit-Up theatre of the 1950s, the West Cork Fit-Up Theatre Festival has been providing rural […]
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The increasingly popular Skibbereen Arts Festival returns this summer (July 25-August 3) with an incredible programme of world-class local, national and international acts. A major coup for the festival this year is the debut West Cork appearance by the legendary English musician Richard Thompson, described by the LA Times as “the […]
In March I wrote a column encouraging people to take part in a public consultation process, for a project aimed at reviving a neglected part of Clonakilty. The public consultation was to inform an Integrated Urban Strategy (IUS) for Kent Street (the street the library is on), identifying how public […]
As always in Summer, the art galleries and arts centres of West Cork are blooming: there are wonderful exhibitions to be seen in Cnoc Bui (Union Hall), Working Artist Studios (Ballydehob), Uillin (Skibbereen), Blue House Gallery (Schull), and Gallery Asna | Clonakilty Community Arts Centre (Clonakilty). This will be the […]
A new film created by the residents of Skibbereen Community Hospital had its debut screening at Schull’s annual Fastnet Film Festival in May. Starting life as a song-writing project through Arts for Health Partnership Programme, ‘The Town That Has Nurtured My Dreams’ has become a celebration of Skibbereen, and the […]