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 […]
Culture
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 […]
Just a few months on from lockdown, questionnaire entries submitted in April and early May 2020 to the Cork Folklore Project’s online ‘Chronicles of COVID-19’ project, reflect a different world. On April 7, Cork Folklore Project launched a call for people to send in audio, text and images, or to […]
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 […]