Guitarist Bill Shanley is a Clonakilty-born session musician, songwriter, performer, and bandleader. He has performed and recorded with Sinéad O’Connor, Mary Black, Liam Clancy, Black Francis (of The Pixies), Paul Brady and Roy Harper, amongst many others. Though he left his childhood home of Shanley’s pub in Clon for Dublin […]
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Well listeners, I hope you have had a chance to tune into www.westcorkfm.ie. It might take some time to get into the new format, but our schedule now runs Saturday and Sundays. The ‘History Show’ will now feature on Saturdays at 6:30pm. Once again, if you want to hear any […]
The 58th West Cork Drama Festival opens in the theatre Rossmore on Friday, March 8 and runs until Saturday, March 16. A rich miscellany of drama will take to the stage with a something to please everyone. Irish Classics (Philadelphia Here I come, The Beauty Queen of Lennane and The […]
After over 30 solo albums and over 55 years in the music business, Roy Harper still has a lot to say. Although 77, he says, “I’ve never thought of myself as old yet”, but admits that this will be his last tour. WCP: You’re often classified as a folk musician. […]
Opening on Saturday, March 9 at Uillinn: West Cork Arts Centre are ‘The Hawk and the House’ by Anne Ffrench and Julia Pallone and ‘Light Keepers’ by Geraldine O’Sullivan, two exciting exhibitions by artists who live in Cork County. The exhibitions will be opened at 3pm by writer and critic […]
Its official…Atlantic Radio Ireland has begun its latest venture. From this month, Atlantic Radio Ireland is launching online as www.westcorkfm.ie. Why the domain name change? Kieran Doyle fills us in. In short, in the coming months, as well as being an internet station, we will also be broadcasting as WestCork […]