Despite the challenges of Covid-19, Sherkin Island’s community is holding its annual art exhibition from now until August 23. The exhibition will be in the Community Hall on Sherkin Island and will open on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays throughout that period, from 12 noon until 5:30pm. It will operate to strict […]
Culture
Over 100 Cork makers will celebrate the importance of contemporary Irish craft as part of Cork Craft Month this August. There are over 70 events and workshops planned across the month — 80 per cent of which are online. The festival, run by Ireland’s largest social enterprise for craftspeople, Cork Craft & Design, kicked […]
Ella, Mary Jo and Angela Ryan, three sisters who are all musicians from just outside Bandon, have been performing on Facebook live every Thursday night for the last three months and have recently started raising funds for Marymount Hospice and Cancer Connect. It all started when Ella eventually arrived home […]
One of the country’s most unique Undergraduate honours degree programmes, the B.A Visual Arts (BAVA) based on Sherkin Island is issuing a final call to interested participants for this year’s intake which is due to begin in September. The course which is fully accredited by TU Dublin offers an exclusive […]
Artist Michael McSwiney discusses art, life and the creative spark with fellow artist and writer James Waller. With a mature painting language and an award-winning art career spanning 30 years, Michael McSwiney is in his prime, unfazed by life’s challenges and as passionate as ever about his craft. I caught […]