Tripe + Drisheen: The Friday View 08/10
Road safety week in Cork, a new brightly coloured mural in Cobh, UCC's tree tours are back live, and memories of salmon on the Lee
Look out! (for this road safety poster)
Budding graphic designer and road safety advocate Ben Ohlow, 9, a third class pupil of St Fin Barre’s National School in the city centre, has won a poster design competition run by Cork City Council.
His colourful poster, which warns us not to rely on the green man and to always look both ways, is being displayed in bus shelters citywide all this week, which is Irish Road Safety Week.
Interested in creativity? Getting older?
A shameless plug for a T + D journalist, but one of Ellie’s other projects launched this week: the Arts & Ageing Podcast is an eight-part podcast recorded in the Sirius Arts Centre in Cobh and in Nazareth House care home near Mallow. It follows the stories of two visual artists, one musician and one dancer who undertook “Creative Enquiry” residencies working with older people.
Mary and Seán Curtin are a married couple who live in Nazareth House: Seán went into the home first, and Mary followed him a year later. Mary is originally from a family of musicians in East Clare, but moved to North Cork to marry Seán, who is from Buttevant.
Mary shared her thoughts on attending music and movement workshops and will be featured in an Arts & Ageing podcast episode. The podcast is out each Monday on all the usual podcast platforms and there’s a landing page here.
New mural for Cobh
A Cobh book shop has been given a colourful facelift by local artist John Adams. The highly coloured mural on the front of Cobh School Books on Bishop’s Street is inspired by children’s imaginations and his own recent series of ecologically themed paintings, Animals Matter, John, whose studio is based on nearby Rahilly Street, said.
Tweet of the week
When the Lee had salmon. And poachers. And bailiffs. Incredible picture here from “The Ring of Blackrock: A Walking Guide & History.”
Campus trees
Trees have frequently featured on Tripe + Drisheen. Ellie’s first long read was on the plight of Cork’s urban trees. Tom Jordan wrote a lovely meditation on trees for Our Cork 2040. We even had a selection of readers tell us about their favourite trees from across the county and country and, lest we forget, there was the long read on the day the RoboTrees came to town.
Next week as part of UCC’s community week, the college will be giving a guided tour of the arboretum, taking in the 20 different species of trees growing on campus. These species range from native Irish and British trees to American, Asian, Australian and European specimens.
It’s a free event, but places are limited for the tour which will be held on Tuesday, October 12 at 1 p.m. Booking information here.
Our long read this week was a profile of marathon swimmer Niall Kenny and his ongoing project to get an outdoor pool back in the Lee.
That’s it for this week’s round-up. Don’t forget to look for out for weekend edition of Tripe+Drisheen with our new Arts+Culture newsletter.
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