The annual Guinness Jazz Festival started and ended on a high note from the 25th to the 28th of October last, with an estimated 40,000 attending events. A renowned tourist attraction and a much welcomed economic boost for the city to tune of €15m, the ‘Jazz Weekend’ saw Cork bustling with buskers, blues and beer….
Last Thursday, mature students held a demonstration in the Mature Students’ Common Room to raise awareness about what they see as unsuitable conditions. The current space, located in the Windle Building, can hold approximately 30 people, yet there can be as many as 60 students in the room at times according to users. There had…
Luke Luby catches up with Trevor Ryan, director of the upcoming “Joseph and The Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat” for The Montfort College of Performing Arts. Q. What drew you to Joseph and The Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat, of all musicals? Well, it hasn’t been produced in Cork in over 20 years, so I was determined to…
Messianic ecstasy or agonising crucifixion? Beki Moore divulges. Usually I enjoy, and often prefer, going to the theatre alone. Therefore, I was quite excited to see “Eden”, a two person show directed by Andrew Flynn, in the Everyman theatre last Tuesday. However, as the first act of the show played out, I began to feel…
I feel more than a little torn when it comes my “duty” as a young, liberal human being to protest for the good of all..or as more often happens, for the good of the elite group to which I belong. On the one hand is the direct democracy idea of eradicating subject culture. Living in…
Today, UCC students held one of the three regional protests against an increase in fees as part of the USI National Day of Action. The Cork University played host to students from colleges across Munster including IT Tralee, WIT, LIT and CIT. Annie Hoey, Deputy President and Campaigns Officer of UCC spoke about the eagerness…
Clocks. Junk. Double birthdays.These are just a few of the solobrous things talked about in Rory McConville`s incredibly original play “The Frozen Field”. An accomplished piece of absurdist theatre, the play captured the avant garde sensibilities of Samuel Beckett with the intelligence of Tom Stoppard. Director Jack Holland, whose dramatic tour de force “The Big…
Eoghan Lyng catches up with Pakie O`Callaghan about his upcoming comedy show at The Everyman Theatre. EL: With a new show hitting theatres soon, how do you think your comedy style has evolved over the years? PC: I`m not sure that it has. I think that there is a consistency about the four “Santa Ponsa”…
Luke Luby pays tribute to the recently deceased poet laureate. Poet. Playwright. Nobel Prize winner.These are just some of the phrases directed at the late Seamus Heaney, though none seem to convey how masterful Heaney was with the written word. As President Michael D. Higgins said in one of the more fitting tributes to Heaney:…
A small group of UCC students protested on the Quad yesterday in response to Ruairi Quinn’s visit to campus. Students’ Union Deputy President Annie Hoey spoke to the media about the realities facing third level students. “For some students, it is now a choice between paying the rent or being able to eat.” The Education…