Culture

This Friday, 18 September, Cork County comes alive for Culture Night with events, activities and performances taking place throughout the county. From a virtual circus performance in Clonakilty to a dramatic look behind the scenes of a theatrical rehearsal in Charleville, there are scheduled events for a wide variety of interests […]

This year there will be a new version of Clonakilty International Guitar Festival for the new version of the world we find ourselves in. This year’s event, the 16th annual festival, will be completely online but the organisers are still bringing the same high quality and eclectic line-up that’s come […]

by Mark Holland, CFC Secretary COVID-19 has upended the global film industry, for a time halting film production, closing cinemas and cancelling film festivals. Normality will resume but, in the meantime, some distributers of completed big budget films have pushed back their release dates, sometimes into next year, to maximise […]

West Cork bred singer-songwriter Míde Houlihan, who has captured the hearts of many an Irish audience over the last number of years, has just released a new single. As part of a new song-writing initiative established during lockdown by IASCA (Irish Association of Songwriters, Composers, and Authors), Míde has teamed up […]

Two brothers from Cork are on a mission to revolutionise the learning of Irish Traditional Music so that anyone can learn to play from the comfort of their own home, at their own speed and to their own schedule. Eugene and Hugh (also known as the Walsh brothers) are both […]

Visitors to Skibbereen are sometimes surprised to come across a building, incongruously tucked away on Mardyke Street, with a neo-classical façade adorned with a ‘square and compasses’ motif. Locals have ever known it simply as the Masonic Hall.  But what is freemasonry and what secrets lie within? The present master […]