History & Folklore - West Cork People

Walking the line between liberalism and tolerance: Racism and literature

Kieran Doyle October, 2020

Ireland has reinvented itself in the twenty first century. It has emerged from the shadows and secrets of the 1900s. We have dismantled draconian laws against gay people. We have allowed literature and the arts to flourish when censorship forced some of our greatest writers to flee our shores like […]

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Further submissions invited to national project chronicling life during the pandemic

WCP Staff September, 2020

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 […]

We are facing our biggest test yet

Kieran Doyle September, 2020

As we tumble towards a second wave of Covid-19 and everyone in the country looks to blame the government, I am always struck by one thing: The failure to look at ourselves as a jigsaw piece in the blame game. Only last month I wrote about our role in choosing […]

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How a Scot accidentally discovered his West Cork heritage

WCP Staff September, 2020

I knew very little about West Cork, or my links to it, until I was an adult. My dad had mentioned our family coming from there but didn’t say much more than that. Instead, my personal relationship with West Cork started by accident, in the summer of 1988 on holiday […]

Famous Irish famine letter with links to two Hollywood movie stars and a princess comes home to Skibbereen

WCP Staff August, 2020

A letter written in late 1846, which had a profound effect on the outcome of the Great Famine, is now returned to Skibbereen, the epicentre of that crisis, thanks to the family of the late Hollywood actress Rita Hayworth. The open letter to the Duke of Wellington was written by Nicholas […]

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Battle for survival and Independence starts again 100 years on in Independence Museum Kilmurry

WCP Staff August, 2020

By Michael John O’Mahony, Kilmurry Historical and Archaeological Association Due to these unprecedented times the battle for survival begins for many organisations within Ireland. Independence Museum Kilmurry’s (IMK) life has been turned upside down in recent months. Now begins a new way in which organisations have to learn, adapt and […]

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