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 […]
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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 […]
The Mayor of County Cork, Cllr. Mary Linehan Foley has extended congratulations to West Cork filmmaker Pat Collins on his election to Aosdána, the affiliation of creative artists in Ireland. Aosdána, founded in 1981, honours artists whose work has made an outstanding contribution to the creative arts in Ireland and […]
Exhibition curated by Alison Ospina runs online until January 31, 2021 It’s been an especially tough year for the arts, with many organisations having to change tactics at short notice in order to ‘adapt or die’. This was certainly the case for the annual West Cork Creates exhibition, usually to […]
West Cork Literary Festival has announced its latest online event. Next Tuesday, October 13th at 8pm, New York Times bestselling author Leslie Jamison will be in conversation with Sinéad Gleeson to celebrate the publication of the paperback edition of Leslie’s latest collection of essays Make It Scream, Make It Burn. This event was originally scheduled for […]