This month holds one of the most significant planet combinations, not just of our lifetime but, of the millennia, the Jupiter Saturn conjunction. We see a climax to the most extraordinary year that 2020 has been as we turn the page on the year and also an era. There’s no […]
Jo Ashby, an artist who lives on Sherkin Island, has chronicled her life during lockdown and beyond in a series of hilarious cartoon drawings, which have now been made into a book to support two charities. All profits for ‘Corona Chronicles – the book’ will be divided between Cork Penny […]
During the first lockdown in the spring of 2020, a group of Haiku poetry writers from, or with a connection to, Sherkin Island couldn’t meet in person, so they kept in touch by sending their Haiku poems via a WhatsApp Haiku group instead. Since March, the group has created over 200 […]
by West Cork Arts Centre staff and artists A busy programme of events was in full swing at Uillinn: West Cork Arts Centre last March. The thought-provoking multi-media installation, ‘Land Walks Land Talks Land Marks’, developed over three years by William Bock in collaboration with residents of Clonakilty Lodge Direct Provision […]
Like everything else, the autumn season of Clonakilty Film Club was put on ice last October. However, the club’s committee are now delighted to announce that they will be showing Icelandic film ‘The County’ on December 15 in Clonakilty Park Cinema. Plans are afoot to resume the club’s programme of […]
Incorporating herbs into your diet and routine can be as simple as each day making a pot of herbal tea, adding in a handful of mixed herbs to your soup or cutting fresh herbs from the garden for a salad or stir fry. The last thing I do each evening […]