The Paper Bracelet by Rachael English was a novel that I had always planned to read this year. I had read the brief of this book online many times, a box filled with identity bracelets from a mother and baby home kept safe for fifty years by a former nurse. I was intrigued by the…
Many of the topics previously covered in this section require skills in the art of speaking and for many, it is not a skill that comes naturally. Practise is required at every stage of the journey to make it to the bright lights of a theatre or behind a microphone to broadcast your own podcast….
There was a time in history when if you wanted to read a book you had to buy a hardcopy, and that was not too long ago. These days, instead of books many people are now reading their literature from eReaders and as technology has progressed eBooks have risen in popularity. Do eBooks change the…
A New Year means new opportunities to rediscover adventures within the pages of books. Literature can take you on many journeys, and there are multiple releases scheduled for 2020 within all genres. Book readers will have the pick of the literature from each of the release dates. These are some of the books that are…
Our dark winter evenings are finally upon us and as I walked through a moonlit Cork City my breath appeared as a mist in front of my face, like the haze on the River Lee on a frosty morning. I walked quickly to keep myself warm and crossed Emmet Place to enter my destination for…
In my second article featuring poets of Cork, I am looking at the life and career of Theo Dorgan and what he has contributed to Irish literature in his career so far. Theo Dorgan was born in Cork in 1953 and since then has spanned a successful career taking on the roles of a poet,…
A train station is not the first place you would imagine you would hear Claude Debussy’s Clair De Lune being played on a piano yet in Kent station in Cork that is exactly what can happen. Since September 2017, public pianos have been installed in five train stations across the country. Stations that were once…
Dedicated to the memory of my grandmother, Renee Buckley – written by Ella Curtin Perched on the arm of the chaise-longue, the parlour of my grandmother’s house spreads out before me like a rolling wave, so expansive and never-ending, despite the four walls which confine it. The lace curtains flutter and dance in the faint breeze,…
Art constitutes many forms of expression and in this digital age new art forms are continuing to emerge in society. The world is now occupied by digital immigrants and digital natives and the podcast phenomenon is something that combines the interests of the two generations by using the experience of listening to a show on…
‘You are supposed to be seen, not heard’, these are words that may be familiar to some of us from childhood but in this short sentence we do not get to hear the story of young person. Crawford Art Gallery recognised this phenomenon in history and have opened an exhibit entitled ‘Seen, Not Heard’. It…