During the first lockdown in the spring of 2020, a group of Haiku poetry writers from, or with a connection to, Sherkin Island couldn’t meet in person, so they kept in touch by sending their Haiku poems via a WhatsApp Haiku group instead. Since March, the group has created over 200 […]
Culture
by West Cork Arts Centre staff and artists A busy programme of events was in full swing at Uillinn: West Cork Arts Centre last March. The thought-provoking multi-media installation, ‘Land Walks Land Talks Land Marks’, developed over three years by William Bock in collaboration with residents of Clonakilty Lodge Direct Provision […]
Like everything else, the autumn season of Clonakilty Film Club was put on ice last October. However, the club’s committee are now delighted to announce that they will be showing Icelandic film ‘The County’ on December 15 in Clonakilty Park Cinema. Plans are afoot to resume the club’s programme of […]
Fightin’ Tom Sweeny, a US Army General and Fenian, was born in Dunmanway town on Christmas Day two centuries ago. He now lies in Greenwood Cemetery in Brooklyn, New York. Pauline Murphy shares her research on the extraordinary life of this born survivor . Thomas William Sweeny was born in […]
RIC officer John Hodnett, a native of Ardfield Rathbarry, lost his life at the Rineen Ambush in Co Clare 100 years ago. Conor Nyhan recounts the life and death of Constable Hodnett, a story that is symbolic of so many others in the Irish War of Independence but one that […]
Recently an old stone building, which is part of Burgatia Farm, Rosscarbery, dating from the 19th century, benefited from funding under the Green, Low-Carbon, GLAS Traditional Farm Buildings grant scheme, which is managed by The Heritage Council in partnership with the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine. After chatting […]