With restrictions on gatherings likely to remain for the foreseeable future due to Covid-19, West Cork Music has cancelled this year’s 25th West Cork Chamber Music Festival, which was due to take place from June 26 – July 5. West Cork Music said that the safety of artists, audiences and […]
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The Script have announced a free concert for HSE/NHS frontline staff and Primary Care workers (including nurses, doctors, cleaners, porters, ambulance staff) performing a career-spanning set on Tuesday, February 9, 2021 at Dublin’s 3Arena. Those eligible for tickets will be all frontline HSE/NHS staff and Primary Care workers across the island of […]
James Waller is a practicing artist and also runs Clonakilty School of Painting.www.jameswaller.orgwww.paintingschool.jameswaller.org At the beginning of ‘The Little Prince’, by Antoinne du-Saint-Exupery, the prince discusses his drawing no. 1 and his drawing no. 2. He becomes exasperated by the grown ups who think his drawing no. 1 is a […]
by Pauline Murphy This month marks the centenary of the ambush at Upton near Innishannon that killed the brother of Antarctic explorer Tom Crean. One hundred years ago, on the afternoon of April 25, 1920, a report reached Innishannon RIC barracks of suspicious activity in fields around Skevanish near Upton […]
Featuring John Spillane, Trad Sessions, Áine Tyrell, Eve Clague + many more Live each night at https://www.facebook.com/DeBarrasClon/ Due to the current covid-19 crisis, DeBarras live music venue in Clonakilty, West Cork, has unfortunately closed up for the time being. However, the music lives on in DeBarras Sitting Room to Sitting […]
Following the success of Cork County Councils ‘Colourful Heritage of County Cork’, a colouring book for all ages, a second volume is now in the works. In addition, The Council’s “Heritage of County Cork” series will this year see the addition of an eighth volume entitled ‘The Archaeological Heritage of […]