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Cool mountain memories
Fred Callow’s debut book is a memoir of his attempts at self-sufficiency in rugged West Cork, and an attempt to set the record straight on an immigrant…
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Ellie O'Byrne
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The octopus that nearly strangled Cork
A new documentary by architect and poet Michelle Delea tells the extraordinary tale of City Seventy, the group of campaigners that stopped Cork City…
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Ellie O'Byrne
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Remembering the wail of the Banshee
Kenny Morris now lives a quiet life in Cork city, but as drummer with Siouxsie and the Banshees, he was at the epicentre of the brief creative maelstrom…
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Ellie O'Byrne
Sultans return
It's 30 years since the Sultans of Ping's debut album, Casual Sex in the Cineplex, made Cork cool. For frontman Niall O'Flaherty, the moment is worth…
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Ellie O'Byrne
At Open Walls, it's art for all
For one night each month, Open Walls offers artists a chance to showcase and sell their work in a setting as democratic as it is laid-back.
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JJ O'Donoghue
A sculpted dog trough on St. Patrick's Street has faded from memory, if not from sight
Séamus Murphy created a trough for the dogs of Cork to quench their thirst. Nowadays, it's mostly filled with cigarette butts.
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JJ O'Donoghue
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Dreaming big on the Basic Income for the Arts
Serge Vanden Berghe is one of 212 artists in County Cork to have been awarded the new Basic Income for the Arts; he tells Tripe + Drisheen what the…
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Ellie O'Byrne
To make tripe and drisheen great again, a Tipperary chef makes it Japanese
For the Cork on a Fork Festival, one of the hardest-working restaurant crews in the city is on a mission to get Cork eating tripe and drisheen (and…
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JJ O'Donoghue
Students who make art, make an art show
The 'Paul St' collective is taking over The Roundy for a special exhibition for one night only next week. Pádraig O’Connor caught up with the five art…
Two 15th Century manuscripts written in Cork, side-by-side in The Glucksman
Filleadh na nDeoraithe/The Return of the Exiles showcases two manuscripts that contain the multitudes from Irish translations of Marco Polo’s journey…
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Where mahjong meets hurling
Players from Canada, the US, Dublin, Cork, and Belfast converged at Blackrock National Hurling Club for the first-ever international mahjong tournament…
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JJ O'Donoghue
Meet the owner of Cork's newest gallery
Tucked away in a former historic city lane, The Laneway Gallery opened in August but a lot of people don't know of its existence.
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Ellie O'Byrne
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