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2 June 2017 By Bryan Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie Traveller activist, Brigid Quilligan, will be the first Irish traveller to be conferred with an Honorary Doctorate at University College Cork today in acknowledgement of her leadership in securing recognition of the distinct ethnic identity of the Traveller Community in Ireland. UCC will honour four distinguished Irish people at... Read More
2 June 2017 By Bryan T. Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie Sherkin Island will hold its annual community arts & craft exhibition at the Sherkin Island Community Hall on June 17th -18th as part of the West Cork Islands Festival. ‘The Gathering’ exhibition will be officially opened by Ann Davoren, director of the West Cork Arts Centre, in... Read More
1 June 2017 By Bryan T. Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie Improve your spatial awareness! In association with Cork Institute of Technology, Cork County Council, the International Space University and Science Foundation Ireland, County Mayor, Cllr Seamus McGrath this week launched Blackrock Castle Observatory’s Summer of Space at Cork County Library Headquarters. The exciting public engagement programme celebrates the 30th... Read More
31 May 2017 By Bryan T. Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie German Short, ‘Backstory’ directed by Joshua Laukeninks, takes home Best of Festival at the 2017 Fastnet Film Festival Award Ceremony The festival, which took place from the 24th to the 28th of May saw huge crowds of filmmakers from all over the world descend on Schull, Co.... Read More
29 May 2017 By Bryan T. Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie Demolition work is to begin today on the site of the former Munster Showgrounds paving  the way for Cork City Council to  develop  Marina Park. Marina Park in Blackrock, at approx 32 ha, will be approximately five times the size of Fitzgerald’s Park. It will run around the redeveloped... Read More
28 May 2017 By Elaine Murphy elaine@TheCork.ie CIT Cork School of Music Artist-in-Residence Alex Petcu will be performing Bartok’s Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion (1937) in the Curtis Auditorium, CIT Cork School of Music, Union Quay, Cork City on Sunday 4th June at 4:30pm, free admission. Alongside pianists Dr. Gabriela Mayer, (head of department, Keyboard... Read More
27 May 2017 By Tom Collins tom@TheCork.ie The Montenotte Event Series Launches with a Wellbeing & Nutrition Evening presented by Rosanna Davison Renowned model and more recently author and nutrionist, Rosanna Davison, will be coming to Cork’s Montenotte Hotel, on Wednesday, 14 June for the first in the hotel’s “An Evening With …” series. With quite... Read More