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…
Originally a novel by Louise O’Neill, Asking For It has now been adapted into an on-stage production by Meadhbh McHugh, in collaboration with Annabelle Comyn. It received five-star reviews from publications like the Irish Examiner, The Irish Mail On Sunday, and the Irish Independent saying ‘It is worth the hype’ this was a production that…
September 20th,2019 was a date that was scratched into everybody’s diary in Cork to come out and celebrate Culture Night. Taking place in towns and cities across Ireland, Cork played its part in hosting Culture Night and putting Cork culture on the map. Businesses and organisations across Cork hosted events and opened their doors…
Making its first appearance in May 2019 in the Glucksman Gallery, Arts For All called upon people representing diverse communities, community arts organisations and cultural institutes from across Cork to come together and scrutinize how to make Arts a part of life for everyone in Cork. One of the goals of Arts For All is…
They say a picture is worth a thousand words. Walking through Cork City the electricity boxes that decorated the side of the streets light up with art and colour. Street artists in Cork took initiative with their artwork to show it to the people who walk through the streets of Cork every day. It creates…