Something remarkable is happening in Clonakilty writes James Waller: over the last two weeks 19 individuals, some of them representing over half a dozen key organisations, have come together to form the Clonakilty Cultural Centre Action Group (CCCAG). Comprised of strategic planners, community workers, artists, arts and home educators, arts […]
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This month we are focusing more on new build, looking into the efficiency of house design and how this can influence our energy use. If you are thinking about building a new home from scratch, it’s not just the insulation and heating system specification that will dictate how much energy […]
This month West Cork Branch committee member Nicholas Mitchell shares his “best bird experience”, a feature that will continue in this column during the months ahead. This is about a bird that I encountered, or more correctly a pair of birds, that were so special they had my wife Karen […]
The Irish have always been notable travellers. A continental scholar, Walafrid Strabo, who lived over a thousand years ago, remarked that the Irish of his time were so given to wandering abroad that it was second nature to them. He had seen them coming by the shipload, monks and craftsmen […]
Myself and my friends have this phrase we use on the occasions we meet up and start reminiscing on our youth. We tend to say, we grew up in an era with one foot in ‘old’ Ireland and another in the ‘new’. We were from a generation where childhood was more […]
“Man up”; “You’re the man of the house now”; “Big boys don’t cry”; “Be a good little man”; “Don’t be a wimp”: These are some of the more print-friendly phrases a male may come up against in the home, school and workplace throughout their lifetime. These are also only a […]