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 […]
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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 […]
Ballinsacarthy based musician Emily Magner Hurley launched her debut album‘Air and Graces’ on Culture Night with a debut performance in Jeffers Piano Shop in Bandon that was beamed, through a Facebook live-feed, across the world. Emily has a long background in music with a music degree, and later a masters […]
Having taken a few months off from writing, I was anxious to see what an older person with much life experience and social commentary thought of the new world we find ourselves in. Who better to ask than musician Roy Harper? I caught up with him over the phone. When […]
Clonakilty GP Dr Laurence O’Cleary was also the doctor at the County Home in Clonakilty when, while the Great War still raged, the Spanish flu broke out in 1918. Dr O’Cleary did his medical training at Queen’s College Cork. After graduating, he went to London where he worked as a […]