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‘Tis the season for traditions

Mary O'Brien December, 2020

Just in time for Christmas, ‘Pretty Interesting History’ has launched the latest in a series of whimsical visual anthologies of Irish women’s social history – ‘The Curious Lady’s Guide to Marriage’. The writer, designer and illustrator behind these humourous historical guides is Jenny Dempsey, a self-proclaimed history obsessive and talented […]

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Download Colouring Competition Picture

WCP Staff December, 2020

Clonakilty Chamber of Commerce has some lovely prizes up its sleeve for budding artists! Simply right click on the image above to download this picture, colour in and drop your entry into the Christmas post box on Astna Square. NB: Please include your name, age and contact email.

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Covid-19 World Experience Series: The winds of change

WCP Staff June, 2020

Clonakilty native Julie O’Brien Grodewald, who owns a bar in midtown Manhattan, The Junction NYC, continues writing in a series of letters from New York City, where a wave of violence and looting in the midst of lockdown has now spread across the city, as thousands of protestors take to […]

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Covid-19 World Experience Series: Covid-19 in the UAE

Shane Daly May, 2020

West Cork People history columnist Shane Daly is currently working as a schoolteacher in Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates. He gives an insight into life under curfew in the UAE during the pandemic. “Pandemic is not a word to use lightly or carelessly. It is a word that, […]

Farming and nature working together

WCP Staff May, 2020

Agroforestry is the practice of combining forestry and agriculture in a mutually beneficial way. West Cork agroforester Rossa Gibbons talks to Moze Jacobs about his passion for trees and the benefits of planting on agricultural land. Trees are long-lived. (The oldest known individual specimen is almost 5,000 years old). So […]

Covid-19 World Experience Series: The clouds are parting

WCP Staff May, 2020

Clonakilty native Julie O’Brien Grodewald, who owns a bar in midtown Manhattan, The Junction NYC, continues writing in a series of letters from New York City, which is still under lockdown. Julie is married to Stevie and they have a two-year-old daughter Izzy. Today there was a bit of a […]

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